How to Use excavator in a Sentence

excavator

noun
  • The excavators found ancient tools at the site.
  • The man had crashed through a fence and then used the arm of the excavator to lift the car.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Some images show an excavator at the site, and at least one shows a white bus.
    — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Ensure an excavator was kept more than two feet from the trench’s edge.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2024
  • An email message left for the lead excavator of the tomb was not returned.
    — oregonlive, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Johnson said an excavator dug down four feet in the search area but nothing was found.
    — Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 9 Apr. 2022
  • An excavator pulled down a wall of the decades-old temple to help people flee.
    — Ashok Sharma, ajc, 31 Mar. 2023
  • An excavator used to load the truck hit the wooden mats, which went toppling.
    — Nisa Khan, Detroit Free Press, 4 Sep. 2020
  • To the east, an excavator worked along the beach near a handful of sunbathers.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2019
  • Prince William used an excavator, and both his sons wanted to help out.
    — Town & Country, 9 May 2023
  • Trucks could be seen in the images, as well as at least one crane and an excavator at tunnels on the site.
    — Arkansas Online, 2 July 2025
  • Fans dropped by to check it out, and sure enough, there was an excavator digging away at the structure.
    — Tom Uhler, star-telegram.com, 4 May 2017
  • But at the very base of the thing, that's where the excavator was taking big boulders out of there.
    — John Ramos, CBS News, 15 June 2026
  • Three twelve-foot-tall orange excavators took bites out of a mound of snow and ferried it to the hot tub.
    — Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The man offloaded the excavator and then used the machine and chains to lift up the trailer ramps.
    — Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Using shovels, the excavators turned over pieces of the house.
    — Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The officer noticed paint chips on the excavator that matched that of the car.
    — cleveland, 18 June 2020
  • The excavator had been through so much rubble that a mound of it on the road rose nearly three stories high.
    — Rania Abouzeid, New Yorker, 21 May 2026
  • The two put on hard hats and surveyed the jumble of cranes and excavators and drills in motion around them.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
  • And because the lanes run across a shallow bridge, an excavator can’t be used to fix the erosion.
    — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
  • One of the bodies wasn't found until an excavator dug through the debris.
    — Robert Allen, Detroit Free Press, 29 June 2017
  • Men line its edge, shoveling in dirt before the excavators fill the hole.
    — Sarah Sirgany, CNN, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Everyone was safe and the excavator is now free from its concrete prison.
    — Caleb Jacobs, The Drive, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The excavator driver is the latest to be caught in the crossfire.
    — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2022
  • The mercury arrived, but the excavator that was promised to them never did.
    — Claire Wilmot & Gisa Tunbridge, The Dial, 12 June 2026
  • Excavator sales in the first four months of the year rose to the highest since 2012.
    — Bloomberg.com, 23 May 2017
  • In the middle of house and farm parcels is a former quarry that filled with water when an excavator hit a spring.
    — Suzanne Baker, chicagotribune.com, 28 May 2021
  • The agency plans on bringing in an excavator to scoop up the frozen waste where it can be placed in a safe container.
    — Fox News, 22 Dec. 2019
  • Haunting drone footage showed excavators digging dozens of graves for the victims.
    — Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The man was detained while driving an excavator on the Greek side of the border.
    — Fox News, 5 May 2018

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