How to Use tractor in a Sentence

tractor

noun
  • The tractor works in a straight line.
    — ABC News, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Look at this, look at the tractor.
    — Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Here comes the tractor pulling the hay cart.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside, 20 Oct. 2025
  • That was why the tractor was still moving.
    — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
  • That’s about the weight of a single tractor tire.
    — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
  • So what happened to the plow farmer when tractors came around?
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2025
  • And the tractor alone was two thousand pounds.
    — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
  • It wasn’t built to fight a flying bomb made from tractor parts.
    — Aaron Brynildson, The Conversation, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Maresh even had to find someone to show him how to start his tractor.
    — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2021
  • The pipes in the house started to whirr and clank like an old tractor.
    — Hazlitt, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The sheds fell on the tractors below.
    — Ricky Sayer, CBS News, 8 June 2026
  • This was the first tractor-trailer that was struck in the crash.
    — Megan Shinn, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • All-new free tractor rides are one of the standouts of this year's fair.
    — Serena Puang, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Aug. 2021
  • The tractor was on the beach as part of a harbor dredging project.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2020
  • The tractor was supposed to stop when the seat was empty.
    — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
  • Not eaten by the gears of a tractor, not alone on a back pasture.
    — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
  • Steven as a young child perched on a tractor beside his grandpa.
    — Bianca Bagnarelli, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
  • One of their first projects was to build a small structure for their well, pump, and tractor.
    — Sunset Magazine, 31 Aug. 2022
  • With every inch the tractor gained, an inch of slack was eaten up.
    — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
  • Their tractors are said to cause hundreds of miles of traffic.
    — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 16 Mar. 2023
  • At the time of our Zoom call, Ross had yet to name his tractor.
    — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2021
  • There was only ten feet between me and the tractor’s rear wheels.
    — Literary Hub, 22 June 2026
  • Maybe equipment, maybe a tractor.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • One example is the price of tires for tractors.
    — Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 23 Oct. 2025
  • That is, if a full house is allowed and concerts and tractor pulls are a go.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 5 Aug. 2020
  • The last customer was the farmer across the street, who arrived on his tractor.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2021
  • The evening will feature live music, tractor rides and games.
    — Elaine Rewolinski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 July 2021
  • In the mix of the crash was a tractor-trailer that jackknifed across the whole road.
    — Lauren Linder, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The small boy creeping out at night to retrieve a sweet from the floor of a tractor would fade.
    — Mary Costello, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Reynold’s pickup struck the back of the tractor-trailer.
    — Timia Cobb breaking News Reporter, Dallas Morning News, 15 Feb. 2026

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