How to Use dredger in a Sentence

dredger

noun
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  • The Mashhour is reported to be the largest and most powerful cutter suction dredger in the world.
    — USA Today, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Fifty-one people died when a pleasure boat sank in the River Thames in London after colliding with a dredger.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2020
  • The dredger position is an approximation based on satellite images of the scene.
    — Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The ship’s technical manager said Thursday that a specialized suction dredger had arrived to help dig it out.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2021
  • First came the dredgers, the scientists who dragged giant shovels behind sailing ships and picked through the biological rubble.
    — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 20 June 2023
  • However, that effort to free the ship hasn’t worked as of Thursday morning, according to a statement provided to the New York Times, and authorities have since brought in a dredger to assist in the efforts.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 25 Mar. 2021
  • But recently, Beijing laid claim to 90 percent of the 1.3 million square-mile sea, and has used dredgers to expand dozens of islets and shoals, fortifying them with anti-ship and anti-air missiles, and military-grade airfields.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 June 2023
  • Chinese vessels have been known to encircle various atolls and islets, sending dredgers to build artificial islands large enough to harbor tankers and warships.
    — Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 29 Sep. 2023
  • All this was happening in the narrow confines of navigable waterways busy with commercial traffic, as container ships, sand dredgers, tug boats and ferries made their way through the race.
    — William Booth, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
  • Dotted along the shoreline are dredgers completing work to add artificial sand, groynes, jetties and breakwaters to prevent further coastal erosion.
    — Time, 3 Aug. 2023
  • China has expanded several islands in the South China Sea, using dredgers and cement machines to not only broaden the size of islets, but build permanent features like seawalls, airfields, and buildings.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Several dredgers, including a specialized suction dredger that can extract 2,000 cubic meters of material per hour, were digging around the vessel's bow, which is wedged into the canal's eastern bank.
    — Vivian Yee New York Times, Star Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021
  • The Suez Canal Authority, which operates the waterway, deployed tugboats and a specialized suction dredger that is able to shift 2,000 cubic meters of material every hour.
    — Samy Magdy, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2021
  • The Mashhour is reported to be the largest and most powerful cutter suction dredger in the world.
    — USA Today, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Fifty-one people died when a pleasure boat sank in the River Thames in London after colliding with a dredger.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Aug. 2020
  • The dredger position is an approximation based on satellite images of the scene.
    — Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2021
  • The ship’s technical manager said Thursday that a specialized suction dredger had arrived to help dig it out.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2021
  • First came the dredgers, the scientists who dragged giant shovels behind sailing ships and picked through the biological rubble.
    — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 20 June 2023
  • However, that effort to free the ship hasn’t worked as of Thursday morning, according to a statement provided to the New York Times, and authorities have since brought in a dredger to assist in the efforts.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 25 Mar. 2021
  • But recently, Beijing laid claim to 90 percent of the 1.3 million square-mile sea, and has used dredgers to expand dozens of islets and shoals, fortifying them with anti-ship and anti-air missiles, and military-grade airfields.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 June 2023
  • Chinese vessels have been known to encircle various atolls and islets, sending dredgers to build artificial islands large enough to harbor tankers and warships.
    — Kathleen Magramo, CNN, 29 Sep. 2023
  • All this was happening in the narrow confines of navigable waterways busy with commercial traffic, as container ships, sand dredgers, tug boats and ferries made their way through the race.
    — William Booth, Washington Post, 24 July 2023
  • Dotted along the shoreline are dredgers completing work to add artificial sand, groynes, jetties and breakwaters to prevent further coastal erosion.
    — Time, 3 Aug. 2023
  • China has expanded several islands in the South China Sea, using dredgers and cement machines to not only broaden the size of islets, but build permanent features like seawalls, airfields, and buildings.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Several dredgers, including a specialized suction dredger that can extract 2,000 cubic meters of material per hour, were digging around the vessel's bow, which is wedged into the canal's eastern bank.
    — Vivian Yee New York Times, Star Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021
  • The Suez Canal Authority, which operates the waterway, deployed tugboats and a specialized suction dredger that is able to shift 2,000 cubic meters of material every hour.
    — Samy Magdy, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2021

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