jackhammer

Example Sentences

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Carolyn Hove, raising her voice to be heard over the crew operating a jackhammer in front of her home, asked: “How much more are we supposed to go through?”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

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

I reached the top of the serac without it collapsing and flopped breathless onto its flat summit, my heart pounding like a jackhammer.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer