How to Use tractor in a Sentence

tractor

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  • One day Frank saw a sweet—an Emerald—on the floor of the tractor.
    — Mary Costello, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The bride and groom had a Range Rover on standby in case the tractor broke down.
    — Maureen MacKey, Fox News, 16 July 2023
  • The driver of the tractor-trailer died at the scene, police said.
    — Casey Parks, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • The condition of the driver of the tractor-trailer is not known.
    — Tandra Smith | Tsmith@al.com, al, 5 Nov. 2022
  • The driver of the tractor-trailer, a 45-year-old New York man, was not injured in the crash.
    — Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 31 Oct. 2022
  • One of their first projects was to build a small structure for their well, pump, and tractor.
    — Sunset Magazine, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Jack mounted a tractor and pulled a long auger used to convey the corn off one of the grain bins.
    — Melina Mara, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2023
  • The machine looks like a cross between a Jeep and a tractor, with its wide tracks.
    — Daniel I. Dorfman, Chicago Tribune, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The four deaths in the crash were sustained in the vehicles the tractor-trailer struck, DPS said.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 11 Mar. 2023
  • To raise more crops from the earth, tractor maker Deere & Co. is looking to space.
    — Bob Tita, wsj.com, 1 May 2023
  • There were tractors and the headlights of border guard cars.
    — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Their tractors are said to cause hundreds of miles of traffic.
    — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Pile onto the tractor wagon for a ride, and take the kids to visit the farm animals.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Country Living, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Steven as a young child perched on a tractor beside his grandpa.
    — Bianca Bagnarelli, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Kris raised his son on a farm east of the city, his only helping hand, strapping him to a tractor at age 5.
    — cleveland, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The dangers of the border were highlighted in June with the deaths of 53 migrants in a tractor-trailer in Texas.
    — Adam Shaw, Fox News, 3 Sep. 2022
  • The company now claims to be the world’s largest tractor maker by volume.
    — Daniel E. Slotnik, New York Times, 1 May 2023
  • Almaz-Antey installed the Tor’s radar and missiles on a DT-30 tractor.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Just north of Islahiye, images of the town of Nurdagi show dozens of tractor trailers on the highway.
    — Paul P. Murphy, CNN, 7 Feb. 2023
  • After her election in 2021, she was driven to the Dutch parliament in The Hague in a tractor.
    — Mike Corder, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The couple, Hyde-Smith said, was found beneath a tractor-trailer.
    — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The driver of the tractor-trailer, a 60-year-old man, suffered no injuries, according to the FHP.
    — Melissa Gaffney, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2022
  • One, a tractor driver, had just come back from the field with a load of corn when the missile hit at around 4 p.m. local time on Tuesday.
    — Monika Pronczuk, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2022
  • While plowing his field in Bulgaria, a farmer hit a large stone with his tractor.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Many of the tractors may have to stay outside of the city because of government restrictions.
    — Alicia León, Quartz, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The tractor-trailer struck the Mercedes-Benz on the driver’s side and the Mercedes-Benz became stuck under the trailer portion of the truck.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 23 Jan. 2023
  • In one of the images, R2 is connected to four big tractor tires — and in front of a farm, naturally.
    — Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Her father sold old tractor supply parts and her mother taught gym at the local high school.
    — Annie Karni, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Crews wet lakebed soils, then a tractor drags a plow to create a landscape of furrows and trenches, not unlike a farmer’s field in spring.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Oct. 2022

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