jackhammer
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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
That’s roughly as loud as standing next to a pummeling jackhammer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
When we went past this one section where a guy was digging up the street with a jackhammer I started thinking how Mexico was exactly where me and Rondell should go.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
The roar of bulldozers and jackhammers drilling into piles of debris is almost constant.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025
“There will be a moment in time in 2028 when there will be no construction at LAX. There will be no jackhammers in the central terminal, there will be no orange cones,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 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
Dump trucks rumble throughout the small city, including in front of the 160-year-old City Hall, where jackhammers and excavators claw at the pavement, following plans to green the adjacent plaza with trees and benches.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
The four jackhammers blasted again, sending sound waves bouncing around the webs and girders that held the bows in place.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
