How to Use bulldozer in a Sentence

bulldozer

noun
  • The road was cleared by a bulldozer.
    — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 4 Feb. 2026
  • That guy may well have met his fate on the business end of a bulldozer.
    — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 10 Mar. 2020
  • And then a bulldozer came through and had to clear out all the cars so the fire trucks get through.
    — Ari Daniel, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2025
  • In the central quad, there were new sand dunes shaped by bulldozers.
    — Lorenzo Tugnoli, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Nearby, sparks flew where a welder changed track pads on a bulldozer.
    — Reid Forgrave, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2017
  • That didn't stop the bulldozers.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The tree’s branches are sawed off and the trunk is dragged away by a bulldozer.
    — Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • There was heavy rain and the rain carried away all the earth that the bulldozer had dug up.
    — Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025
  • This plan amounts to a war on both species of owls and the weapons are guns, chain saws, and bulldozers.
    — Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025
  • At the site, a bulldozer pushed the snow to front-end loaders, which filled the dump trucks.
    — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Leopard 2 tanks are low slung and have treads, like a bulldozer.
    — Michael Biesecker, Fortune, 9 June 2023
  • There could be a bulldozer that is going to edge into your path.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 June 2022
  • Most of us aren’t going to lay down in front of a bulldozer or chain ourselves to a tree.
    — Richard Pallardy, Discover Magazine, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Along with the rest of the neighborhood, the house was torn to the ground by a bulldozer.
    — Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
  • In the creek bed, a bulldozer shoveled up trash, debris and grass.
    — Sara Cline, ExpressNews.com, 29 Nov. 2019
  • The bulldozer driver turned around, got in his truck, and never came back.
    — Cathy Huyghe, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021
  • These bulldozers with armored cabs roll off the barges pulling sleds with steel mats to build roads across the soft sand.
    — Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2019
  • Cranes, bulldozers and other heavy equipment were moved to the scene.
    — Linda Trischitta, latimes.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The field had so many levels of turf on it, bulldozers had to be brought in to remove tons of dirt.
    — Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • My father had rented a bulldozer to build a road that goes up the mountain.
    — Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025
  • Then they are carried to the trenches and covered with dirt by a bulldozer.
    — Safak Timur, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Only then was the plane burned and buried with a bulldozer, as if to hide the evidence.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The four corners of a crawler are supported by pairs of bulldozer-like tracks.
    — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 29 June 2019
  • Near a bulldozer, the forlorn husk of a car hunkered in the midst of a store’s wreckage.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2026
  • Some of them chained themselves to the trunks in defiance of the bulldozers.
    — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Next to the Target, a charter school looked as if a bulldozer had plowed through it.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 15 June 2020
  • There was no trace of bulldozers or building equipment beyond some tire tracks on the beach.
    — Emmet Lyons, CBS News, 22 June 2026
  • Containment began along the north edge of the fire as bulldozers cleared lines in the brush to stop its spread.
    — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2025
  • In the days after the riots, bulldozers cleared away the wreckage.
    — Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Cats often hide among the rubble, and run the risk of being hurt or killed when the bulldozers come in to clear it.
    — Kat Lonsdorf, NPR, 12 July 2025

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