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jackhammer

[jak-ham-er] / ˈdʒækˌhæm ər /




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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

“After the curbs were perfectly poured, we had a gentleman with a jackhammer come in here and chip away at them,” said Gary Ehrlich, president of studio operations.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 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

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

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


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