jackhammer
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They hired a crew to jackhammer away much of the concrete and replace it with crushed black lava rock from C&M Topsoil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
If you’re a fan of Croatia, I think you might want to stop reading here and go do something less stressful, like operating a jackhammer, or wrestling a sock drawer full of cobras.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
In the end, Guadagnino takes a jackhammer to everything he’s spent the last two-plus hours so meticulously building, but not quite in the way one might expect.
From Salon ● Sep. 25, 2025
Crucially, the song avoids the Eurovision cliches of jackhammer dance anthems and windswept balladry – something Remember Monday have in common with this year's favourites.
From BBC ● May 9, 2025
Axel feels a jackhammer now in his heart.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
The technician positioned me to slide through the metal arc of an MRI machine while the sound of jackhammers pounded.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2024
“Every morning you can feel the vibrations from the jackhammers and you see rocks tumbling down,” one woman told state broadcaster Rai.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2024
The jackhammers are aminocyanine molecules, a class of fluorescent synthetic dyes used for medical imaging.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 19, 2023
She could hear the pounding of jackhammers; an excavator was crawling over a pile of bricks at the rear of the house while workers in hard hats swept the soil.
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2023
Frightful slowly adjusted to the noise of the jackhammers.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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