jackhammer

The decibel meter on my cellphone showed an average level of 105, which is jackhammer level, capable of causing permanent hearing loss after 15 minutes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 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

Crucially, the song avoids the Eurovision cliches of jackhammer dance anthems and windswept balladry – something Remember Monday have in common with this year's favourites.

From BBC ● May 9, 2025

The jackhammer job paid seventy-five cents an hour, so Joe had put a check next to that box and stepped into the examination room for his physical.

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

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

“Every morning you can feel the vibrations from the jackhammers and you see rocks tumbling down,” one woman told state broadcaster Rai.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2024

Unlike the nanoscale drills based on Nobel laureate Bernard Feringa's molecular motors, molecular jackhammers employ an entirely different - and unprecedented - mechanism of action.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 19, 2023

For the three hours that the jackhammers blasted, Frightful watched Sam.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George