How to Use dredger in a Sentence

dredger

noun
  • Also, waiting for available dredgers to pull sand from ocean sources could delay placement for years.
    — Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The Mashhour is reported to be the largest and most powerful cutter suction dredger in the world.
    — USA Today, 29 Mar. 2021
  • The dredger sank, killing three of its crew and leaving two missing, according to multiple media reports.
    — USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The dredger position is an approximation based on satellite images of the scene.
    — Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2021
  • Red’s father jumped into the East River, and when his body was found, his head had been severed by the dredger that was looking for him.
    — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 18 July 2025
  • The ship’s technical manager said Thursday that a specialized suction dredger had arrived to help dig it out.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Fifty-one people died when a pleasure boat sank in the River Thames in London after colliding with a dredger.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2020
  • First came the dredgers, the scientists who dragged giant shovels behind sailing ships and picked through the biological rubble.
    — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 20 June 2023
  • The first phase will finish before Memorial Day, which as long as the dredger returns by fall to finish, has an upside, officials said.
    — Laylan Connelly, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2024
  • Chinese vessels have been known to encircle various atolls and islets, sending dredgers to build artificial islands large enough to harbor tankers and warships.
    — Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Wildcat miners, using giant excavators, dredgers, and mercury, can devastate miles of river and forest in a matter of days.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The dredger Tianqi is engaged in similar activities throughout the Paracels.
    — Andrew S. Erickson, Foreign Affairs, 9 Apr. 2015
  • Dotted along the shoreline are dredgers completing work to add artificial sand, groynes, jetties and breakwaters to prevent further coastal erosion.
    — Time, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The earliest a dredger will be available to resume a sand replenishment project in San Clemente is likely going to be just as the busy summer season starts in the coastal town.
    — Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 7 Feb. 2024
  • All this was happening in the narrow confines of navigable waterways busy with commercial traffic, as container ships, sand dredgers, tug boats and ferries made their way through the race.
    — William Booth, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
  • Cabral gave a recap of what led the city to ask the project be halted about three weeks into the dredging, which started in December, with several delays due to the contractor’s dredger breaking.
    — Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Those claims extend to the Spratly Islands, where Chinese dredgers have created more than 3,000 acres of new land across seven reefs.
    — Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Since colonial times, however, shovels and sieves have been replaced by heavier equipment, such as the mining barges, expensive and more destructive dredgers, and bulldozers – used to dig riverside slopes.
    — Andre Cabette Fabio, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Apr. 2024
  • The cutter suction dredger Tianjing, Asia’s largest, has pumped sand onto five Spratly reefs in 2014 to create and expand regional islands.
    — Andrew S. Erickson, Foreign Affairs, 9 Apr. 2015
  • On Monday, workers in hard hats and vests continued preparing the area ahead of the work that is expected to start mid week, following the dredger completing a sand replenishment project in San Diego.
    — Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Several dredgers, including a specialized suction dredger that can extract 2,000 cubic meters of material per hour, were digging around the vessel's bow, which is wedged into the canal's eastern bank.
    — Vivian Yee New York Times, Star Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021
  • However, that effort to free the ship hasn’t worked as of Thursday morning, according to a statement provided to the New York Times, and authorities have since brought in a dredger to assist in the efforts.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 25 Mar. 2021
  • China has expanded several islands in the South China Sea, using dredgers and cement machines to not only broaden the size of islets, but build permanent features like seawalls, airfields, and buildings.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Buoys are being anchored to mark water depth and guide the dredger’s work, ITAW’s Stephanie Groß told NDR, noting that the operation is taking place close to the whale’s head.
    — Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The Suez Canal Authority, which operates the waterway, deployed tugboats and a specialized suction dredger that is able to shift 2,000 cubic meters of material every hour.
    — Samy Magdy, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2021
  • When an incident for which Tom is indirectly responsible leads to old-timer Bernie (Danny Webb), who makes a living from his scallop dredger, having his leg amputated, Jack takes charge of the veteran fisherman’s care.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019

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