Example Sentences

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The rocks are melted down at 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit to form perfect silicon “crystals” inside a 35-foot-tall machine called a crystal puller.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

“I thought my family would never have power at home,” said Abdul Halim, a rickshaw puller in Dhaka.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2024

“There are times you put Stanley first and you’re second,” says focus puller Douglas Milsome, whose hand once froze to the camera lens during filming.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2023

He started his career at the BBC as a cable puller, cameraman and production manager, before landing producing and directing roles.

From BBC • Jan. 18, 2023

He began to run hurriedly, scarcely knowing what he did, and once he called to another puller whom he knew casually in the day’s work, “Look at this—what is this I pull?”

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck