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
Sweden is hosting Eurovision 2024 after Swedish icon Loreen won this year's trophy with the jackhammer pop anthem Tattoo.
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2023
Viruses may seem alive when they multiply, but in another sense they are obviously dead, are only machines, subtle ones to be sure, but strictly mechanical, no more alive than a jackhammer.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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
The jackhammers are aminocyanine molecules, a class of fluorescent synthetic dyes used for medical imaging.
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
By spring, Sairy had grown increasingly agitated by the loud noises of the city, with the screeching trucks and blaring horns and pounding jackhammers.
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
