jackhammer

The decibel meter on my cellphone showed an average level of 105, which is jackhammer level, capable of causing permanent hearing loss after 15 minutes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 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

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

For a long while conversation was impossible, because I was bouncing up and down on the seat like a jackhammer.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

Trump, who built a career as a real estate developer, has frequently touted the project, gushing over the sounds of jackhammers and excavation trucks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

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

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