jackhammer
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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
“After the curbs were perfectly poured, we had a gentleman with a jackhammer come in here and chip away at them,” said Gary Ehrlich, president of studio operations.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2024
My heart’s punching my ribs now, rapid-fire like a jackhammer, and my muscles tense with the energy that will catapult me forward.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
The roar of bulldozers and jackhammers drilling into piles of debris is almost constant.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025
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
Unlike the nanoscale drills based on Nobel laureate Bernard Feringa's molecular motors, molecular jackhammers employ an entirely different - and unprecedented - mechanism of action.
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
The constant vibrations from two jackhammers trembled the huge horizontal web, but Frightful stayed with her eggs.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
