earthmover

Example Sentences

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At least a dozen underage migrant workers have been killed on the job since 2017, including a 16-year-old who fell from an earthmover he was driving in Georgia.

From New York Times

Strolling not far from an orange Hitachi earthmover and towering crane, Joe Pozza, president of Hitachi Rail North America, said he hopes the nation’s surge of transit funding under last year’s federal infrastructure bill will help to keep the Washington County site busy far into the future.

From Washington Post

“I was helping others unload the bodies from the truck when the soldiers started firing. I ran for my life and took refuge inside an earthmover. Two people hiding with me got killed. When the soldiers started shooting in our direction, I ran,” said Phonai, a coal miner and part of the search team who survived.

From Seattle Times

A guitarist played Spanish Christian pop songs, and some sang along, their voices soon drowned out by the hum of an earthmover.

From Los Angeles Times

Many shots are like short films in and of themselves: a background dumping of slag that as composed looks like Sergiy’s post-apocalyptic thought bubble; his amusingly ingenious repurposing of an earthmover’s separated claw; and, most metaphorically audacious for a movie about life after death in modern Ukraine, a slow push-in from a rainy, dreary outside to a scene of healing intimacy inside the volunteer van’s cramped interior.

From Los Angeles Times