jackhammer

Example Sentences

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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

And by taking a jackhammer to that foundation, Garber threatened the integrity of the entire structure.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2023

A long, shrill whistle blew, and the jackhammer men scrambled quickly to the tops of their lines.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown