How to Use bulldoze in a Sentence

bulldoze

verb
  • The crew is bulldozing the trees.
  • They bulldozed a road through the hills.
  • The governor bulldozed the law through the legislature.
  • Don’t let anyone bulldoze you with their ideas.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 4 June 2026
  • These structures would be bulldozed to clear the way for the project.
    — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Many of us garden on the fill that was bulldozed around when our home was built.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Sep. 2025
  • At the start of the hike, part of the road appears to have been bulldozed away.
    — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Someone had to have dug the pit, stacked the corpses, bulldozed over the mass graves.
    — Seema Jilani august 29, Literary Hub, 29 Aug. 2025
  • By this time next year, their home will probably be bulldozed.
    — Jason Buch, New York Times, 21 July 2019
  • The tasteful kind doesn’t bulldoze.
    — Julia Korn, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • There was no reason for it to be bulldozed, other than to just get rid of it.
    — Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 6 Mar. 2020
  • The shelter has been bulldozed, swank condos have been built around the area.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2024
  • The structure has since been condemned by the city and will have to be bulldozed to the ground.
    — Vanesa Brashier, Houston Chronicle, 5 Apr. 2018
  • The buyer bulldozed it and built a home worth close to $2 million in its place.
    — Alena Botros, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2023
  • It has since been bulldozed, but around 300 people lived there at its peak.
    — Brian Barth, Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The town would then be free to bulldoze all his unlawful structures.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The garage has since been bulldozed and the housing plans are moving forward.
    — Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2024
  • The area where our mailbox should be is being bulldozed to make a straighter, faster highway.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
  • That translates to more than just a north-to-south, bulldozing runner.
    — Scott Thompson, Fox News, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Stand your ground without bulldozing the people who love you.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Now Nesbitt was proposing to bulldoze most of the structures on the site.
    — Sophie Cocke, ProPublica, 15 Aug. 2020
  • Photos posted online now show a wide path bulldozed right through the middle of it.
    — Geraldo L. Cadava, The Atlantic, 20 June 2026
  • The garden used to be a landfill, left behind when a row of houses was bulldozed a few decades ago.
    — Kate Brown, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2020
  • But Thomas is not yet ready to let developers bulldoze his place in the name of progress.
    — Atlanta Travel, ajc, 23 May 2017
  • Troops bulldozed over the bodies and crushed the vehicles, burying them in a mass grave.
    — Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2025
  • That project would bulldoze an office building on the site to make way for apartments and townhomes.
    — George Avalos, Mercury News, 18 June 2026
  • Ford’s approach with its new truck is more like bulldozing the entire house and starting from scratch.
    — Patrick George, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Flintstones out, raptors in Some of Bedrock will be bulldozed.
    — Scott Craven, azcentral, 14 June 2019
  • Their gusts act like miniature cold fronts, bulldozing ahead of the rain and lifting desert soil into the sky.
    — Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Melwood will be bulldozed in 12 months’ time when first team move to Kirkby.
    — SI.com, 1 Aug. 2019

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