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Meanings of excavator in English
Synonyms
Examples for "shovel"
Examples for "shovel"
1
If Molly needed help with the shovel work, Ali would step in.
2
An aide said: It is a misnomer to talk about shovel-ready projects.
3
Others just need some small tools like a saw or a shovel.
4
During the recession, Hillwood bought shovel-ready land from cash strapped home builders.
5
Rose saw Sam coming up the hill, a shovel in one hand.
1
Five minutes' walk along the tracks from the station lived a well-digger.
2
For years, every digger on the planet was drooling for a permit.
3
The grave-digger was staring into the hole with all his bulging eyes.
4
Dimple was there, working a posthole digger at the parking lot's edge.
5
Everybody knew that Grandfather Mole was the champion digger of Pleasant Valley.
1
The shovellers clambered into the cars and the steam power shovels helped the torrent along.
2
The coal veins were shallow there, and the power shovels could attack from the surface.
3
Great power shovels scooped load after load of earth.
Usage of excavator in English
1
It had left a trail of destruction wider than a tunnel excavator.
2
An excavator was hotwired and turned into a sort of armoured car.
3
Instead the only activity is a bulldozer and excavator reshaping the shoreline.
4
Once the excavator was through the top layers, the dig progressed quickly.
5
Steve Lyon said last month's trial used an excavator with a rake bucket.
6
Soldiers were digging a trench with an excavator, the photographer said.
7
Reuters footage showed police and an excavator on the allotment on Tuesday morning.
8
He's talked to someone who worked as a volunteer excavator in Cave 2001.
9
A volunteer excavator had confirmed the discovery of such a skeleton.
10
It expressed to the excavator strain, rather than shyness, on the traveller's part.
11
As we surmised from the nickname, Digger made his living as an excavator.
12
They belonged to her nearest neighbour, Mitsos, who was part-owner of an excavator.
13
He wanted to bring in an excavator and have the mess cleaned up.
14
The excavator creaked and thrummed, even though the engines had been shut down.
15
Israeli police shot the excavator driver dead; there were no passengers on the bus.
16
An excavator removed concrete slabs and swept mud out of a particularly deep gutter.
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Translations for excavator
Spanish
Excavator through the time
Excavator across language varieties
United States of America
Common