noun
backhoe
an excavator whose shovel bucket is attached to a hinged boom and is drawn backward to move earth
In a sentence
Six example sentences with backhoe, each labelled with its topic.
A backhoe cleared the foundation trench in one morning, biting into clay the crew had already loosened.
Architecture
Volunteers used a small backhoe to carve shallow ponds that would hold rainwater for frogs through the dry months.
Environment
Before the backhoe arrived on farms, digging a drainage ditch of that length took a dozen men a week.
History
The building sim unlocks a backhoe on the third level, and the trench that took an hour with shovels takes minutes.
Gaming
The rental yard charges by the day for a backhoe, so contractors schedule all their digging into one long Saturday.
Business
A backhoe sliced through the buried fiber line, and half the county lost internet until crews spliced it after midnight.
Technology
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