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How to use tractor in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Tractor means a vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm equipment and preparing the fields. Example: “The tractor plant is slated for the axe.”

Examples of tractor by meaning

nounA British Rail Class 37 locomotive.

  • As any crew will tell you a tractor will pull anything anywhere, and yet at the same time they were nippy enough for use on the Anglian mainlines for 20 years.1995 May 23, Andrew Cooke, “Re: British Rail: At Last The 1948 Show”, in misc.transport.rail.europe (Usenet)
  • As you correctly observe, the pic of little me shows that I am in a Dutch liveried tractor.2000 April 25, Grandpops, “Calling Norfolk tractor bashers with a good brain for numbers! Possible conclusion?”, in uk.railway (Usenet)
  • EWS are also denying any rumours of tractors going to Spain, then again they denyed the rumours of tractors going to France until the contract was signed!2000 May 17, Matt, “Re: "Unfixing" Class 37s and Doncaster control (rant!!)”, in uk.railway (Usenet)

More sentences with tractor

  • The tractor plant is slated for the axe.From the entry axe
  • The set I'm making right now needs a power on it, but we don't have any tractors left in the yard.From the entry power
  • Joe definitely doesn't know how to drive a tractor.From the entry definitely
  • The tractor plant is slated for the ax.From the entry slated
  • My tractor is a gas-hog! It consumes a disproportionately high amount of fuel for the amount of work it performs.From the entry gas-hog
  • The tractor drew up alongside the haystack.From the entry draw up
  • There wasn't enough distance left before the bend for an overtake, so I had to trundle behind the tractor for another mile.From the entry overtake
  • The old tractor finally wore out.From the entry wear out
  • They are then loaded onto ferries by dockyard tractors called "tugs".2025 August 20, Paul Clifton, “Ro Ro Rail takes the freight train to Spain”, in RAIL, number 1042, page 49. From the entry tug
  • From nurses and healthcare workers to people who make cereal, tractors, and whiskey.2021 October 21, Jesus Chuy Garcia, quotee, “Rep. Garcia Honors Workers Around the Nation During ‘Striketober’”, in Targeted News Service. From the entry Striketober
  • Only two skycranes came in hauling tractors and we aren’t allowed to get rides on them.2016, Conrad M. Leighton, War Stories: A GI Reporter in Vietnam, 1970-1971, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 292. From the entry skycrane
  • He pushes the lawn tractor further out into the rain and angles it off to the side.2014, Peter Blendell, Jonagold, →ISBN, page 63. From the entry driveshed
  • Or you can slide the trailer′s tandem forward toward the tractor.2004, Mike Byrnes & Associates, Bumper to Bumper: The Complete Guide to Tractor-Trailer Operations, page 310. From the entry trailer
  • Pʻu-kʻou has a modern chemical fertilizer plant and a tractor factory.1968, “NANKING (NAN-CHING)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 15, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1167. From the entry P'u-k'ou
  • One of my kibbutz jobs has been to drive a tractor.1955, Murray Weingarten, “The Promise of the Future”, in Life in a Kibbutz: The Only Book of Its Kind in English, New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry Chevvy
  • It is operated by the driver of the caterpillar tractor which hauls it.1943 September and October, “Railway Construction and Operation at War Department Depots”, in Railway Magazine, page 262. From the entry scraper
  • He also owns the only backhoe tractor on Elbow Cay, so whenever anyone needs a cistern dug, he's their man.2012, The Island Caper: A Jake Lafferty Action Novel, →ISBN, page 34. From the entry man
  • A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer.2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly). From the entry mobile
  • A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it via mobile money-transfer.2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023…. From the entry matternet
  • I learned how to let the clutch out slo-ow-ly so my tractor wouldn't pop a wheely and go hauling over backward.2004, Muffy Mead-Ferro, “The World Isn’t Childproof”, in Confessions of a Slacker Mom, Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Lifelong, →ISBN. From the entry wheelie
  • Sure enough, the tractor spun off much faster.2001, Ricardo L Garcia, Coal camp days: a boy's remembrance. From the entry whee
  • We’ll need the tractor to turn over the loam.1995, Martha Grimes, chapter 17, in Rainbow’s End (A Richard Jury Novel; 13), New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 130. From the entry farmling
  • Hooked my model tractor beam into ship's power.1987, Dorothy Catherine Fontana, “The Naked Now”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Wesley Crusher (Wil…. From the entry repulsor beam
  • The tractor was rigged with a frontloader.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 155. From the entry frontloader
  • Part of your job would be to learn tractor ploughing and the use of planters, harrows, and cultivators.1969, Bessie Head, When Rain Clouds Gather, Heinemann, published 1995, page 28. From the entry harrow
  • A pressor beam lashed out, and invisible hammer blow of repulsion, five times the strength of the enemy tractor.1956 September, Poul Anderson, “Margin of Profit”, in Astounding Science Fiction, volume 58, number 1, page 58. From the entry pressor beam
  • For working the reinstated passenger service last summer, the large Fordson tractor, normally employed on the stone trains, was used.1946 July and August, “Notes and News: The Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 255. From the entry Fordson
  • Water-pillar fountains have recently been installed in several Lancashire boroughs for supplying water to steam motor wagons and tractors.1916 August 1, “Motor-Wagons, Tractors and Carriages”, in Farm Implement and Machinery Review, page 446. From the entry water pillar
  • A number of agricultural colleges have added courses in tractioneering, and there are several privately conducted tractor schools.1916, United States. Department of Agriculture, Department Bulletin (issues 151-175, page 40). From the entry tractioneering
  • Essex Fire and Rescue Service said the fire started in a tractor and a hay baler and then began to spread to the stubble fields.2023 August 24, Helen Burchell, “Great Sampford tractor fire spreads to stubble field”, in BBC News. From the entry stubble field
  • The most obvious part on a tractor is the tinwork – the nose cone, bonnet and wings: they are out there for all to see.2017, Richard Lofting, Vintage and Classic Tractor Restoration, page 228. From the entry tinwork
  • The paper also included a completed scene diagram, included a wrecked tractor and semi-trailer, damaged asphalt area, gouges, skip lines, and displaced Jersey barrier sections.2013, Donald E. Struble, Automotive Accident Reconstruction: Practices and Principles, →ISBN. From the entry jersey barrier
  • After gaining experience shocking and chaining, a person would next move up to become a tractor driver, pulling aircraft around the deck.2011, William M. Trently, Snapshot: Ship's Dentists, →ISBN, page 72. From the entry blue shirt
  • Trucks are used in conjunction with the forklift tractor if the fruit is to be delivered to a more distant cooperatively owned packhouse.1996, Gary Andrews, Seasonal Work in New Zealand, page 12. From the entry packhouse
  • The combination unit was traversing a straight section of roadway, on an approximate 4 percent upgrade, when the tractor began to jackknife.1988 October 12, National Transportation Safety Board, “CASE NO. 9”, in Safety Study: Case Summaries of 189 Heavy Truck Accident…. From the entry counterclockwise
  • Before the grave was half filled a truck entered the cemetery gates towing a lowboy with a tractor chained to the bed.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 155. From the entry lowboy
  • We're caught in a tractor beam!1977, George Lucas, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, spoken by Han Solo (Harrison Ford). From the entry tractor beam

Meaning of tractor

  1. noun A vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm equipment and preparing the fields.
  2. noun A movable coop without a floor to allow for free ranging.
  3. noun A truck (or lorry) for pulling a semi-trailer or trailer.

Full definition of tractor

Questions about tractor in a sentence

How do you use tractor in a sentence?
Tractor is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The tractor plant is slated for the axe.”
What is a short sentence with tractor?
“The old tractor finally wore out.”
What does tractor mean?
Tractor means a vehicle used in farms e.g. for pulling farm equipment and preparing the fields.

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