How to Use front-end loader in a Sentence

front-end loader

noun
  • Police said Loudon had stolen a front-end loader and drove it through his home.
    — Fox News, 28 July 2021
  • In another, a front-end loader crashes through the door of a bank.
    — James Marson, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2022
  • What do parents like more than happy kids climbing a front-end loader?
    — Chris Barlow, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2017
  • The large front-end loader is used in the wintertime to put salt into trucks or the salt barn.
    — John Benson, cleveland.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • But that will barely get the front-end loaders cranking on a project that’s a $10 million event — for openers.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 28 May 2018
  • Volunteer rescuers needed to use a front-end loader to lift Edgar, her dog and a few possessions from their home.
    — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Dec. 2020
  • As firefighters doused hot spots at the feed store, workers used front-end loaders to move the charred hay into massive dumpsters to get it away from the flames.
    — John D'anna, azcentral, 1 June 2020
  • Authorities say a Florida man used a front-end loader to dump a large bucket full of dirt on a car with his girlfriend inside.
    — Htv National Desk, Houston Chronicle, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Wolfe County Sheriff Chris Carson used a front-end loader to lift out the woman who had the seizure.
    — NBC News, 1 Mar. 2021
  • But a crowd of Palestinian onlookers rushed forward to try to recover it, and rather than retreat, the front-end loader kept at its task.
    — David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2020
  • The putrid work required an excavator and a front-end loader, which the team used to peel back layers of blubber to collect samples from the whale’s organs.
    — David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2019
  • Before speaking, Biden shook hands and learned about operating a front-end loader during a tour of the training facility.
    — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Kurdish fighters heaved them one by one into the shovel of a yellow front-end loader, which moved them into a 40-foot gravel truck to be taken away for burial.
    — Sangar Khaleel, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Jan. 2022
  • The worker was opening the back doors of a truck when a front-end loader backed into him and pinned him against the truck, according to police spokesman Steve Linders.
    — Paul Walsh, Star Tribune, 2 Nov. 2020
  • On a recent day, two children pedaled bicycles near the community basketball court as a front-end loader scooped dirt a few yards from playground equipment.
    — Kate Santich, OrlandoSentinel.com, 29 June 2018
  • On August 23, Kopf Builders reported the back window of a front-end loader on the golf course had been smashed over the weekend.
    — Cheryl Higley, cleveland, 3 Sep. 2021
  • One person was killed in a crash involving a car and a front-end loader in Volusia County Wednesday morning.
    — Gal Tziperman Lotan, OrlandoSentinel.com, 23 May 2018
  • Down the street, repair crews were operating front-end loaders and cranes to right a utility pole that had been leaning dangerously after being walloped by a large tree.
    — Rene Rodriguez, miamiherald, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Late Monday afternoon a front-end loader and dump truck finally arrived to haul away what had been Faustina’s house as relatives watched for items that could be salvaged.
    — Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Tiny against their quarry’s bulk, swarms of tugboats raced to try to wrench the Ever Given free, and a front-end loader strained to dig it out from the canal’s eastern embankment, where its bow sat wedged.
    — New York Times, 24 Mar. 2021
  • An officer arrived and saw an operator of a front-end loader moving mulch at an adjacent landscaping company property.
    — cleveland, 9 May 2020
  • Jahlani Ware was riding the bike east on Northeast First Street when the front-end loader was driving out of a parking lot, heading west, investigators said.
    — Brooke Baitinger, sun-sentinel.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • In March 2007, just before the temple opened, a man stole a front-end loader tractor from a nearby heavy-equipment yard and repeatedly smashed it into the gurdwara.
    — Hailey Branson-Potts, latimes.com, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Efforts to remove a homeless camp in the heart of downtown outside the Main Library also gave the city a black eye, when city crews rolled in on front-end loaders and tossed peoples’ belongings into a dumpster.
    — Brittany Wallman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • After the soil is appropriately moist to dig and amend – see below – rent such tools as a mini-front-end loader or a mini-garden-tractor to help with the heavy-duty tasks of soil preparation, including moving and incorporating soil amendments.
    — oregonlive, 16 May 2021
  • Earlier that morning, a topless woman, 34-year-old Heather Houston, had allegedly swiped a front-end loader construction vehicle and drove it around town, police told the station, and now was apparently calling it a night.
    — Scott Berson, miamiherald, 2 July 2018
  • John Perry, the mayor of Everson, Washington, about 8 miles from Sumas, said a local contractor saved his son, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren from rising flood waters by carrying them to higher ground in the bucket of his front-end loader.
    — NBC News, 20 Nov. 2021

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