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
A tiny, transparent fish makes a sound as loud as a jackhammer, scientists have discovered.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2024
It took him three times to hear me over the jackhammer, but when he finally did he yelled back: “I’m gonna be a fisherman!”
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
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
With the jackhammers silent, 426 fed Frightful again and nervously sat down and brooded the eggs while she exercised.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
