dredger

Example Sentences

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In June 2013, Gideon Mensah from Ghana signed up to work on the TN scalop dredger Noordzee.

From BBC • Aug. 18, 2024

Kinmen residents in recent years have reported seeing an increase in sand dredger vessels from China, which take sand from the ocean floor, as well as fishing ships, close to its coast.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 14, 2024

Samuel Denapo: Because after we establish this fish trap, the dredger will come and they will put their pipe there, they will start sand-filling everything.

From Scientific American • Dec. 17, 2021

The 75 families who lived on Tatuoca island began to question the benefits of the port complex expansion in 2009 when a dredger began scooping up chunks of the seabed to accommodate big ships.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2021

“I wondered, Dad, if you would hook up the oyster dredger to the Miss Amanda and help me haul something out of the river?”

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings