jackhammer
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Carolyn Hove, raising her voice to be heard over the crew operating a jackhammer in front of her home, asked: “How much more are we supposed to go through?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026
But he turns up the volume on his rich voice so high, and so consistently, that Shakespeare’s verse comes across like the sound of a jackhammer without an off switch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 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
Let’s say you’re out on some rugged outcropping and you need to jump on your jackhammer for a few minutes.
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2024
Axel feels a jackhammer now in his heart.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
The roar of bulldozers and jackhammers drilling into piles of debris is almost constant.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025
Led by Luis Chiappe, director of the Natural History Museum’s Dinosaur Institute, the paleontologists return with generators and tents and jackhammers and dental picks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2024
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
The jackhammers are aminocyanine molecules, a class of fluorescent synthetic dyes used for medical imaging.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 19, 2023
So hard that roughly two thousand feet of steel disappeared every day from the bit ends of all the jackhammers and pneumatic drills at work in the canyon.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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