jackhammer

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

A tiny, transparent fish makes a sound as loud as a jackhammer, scientists have discovered.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2024

Gradually, Arm adjusted, as one adjusts to the sound of a jackhammer, but he was never really comfortable.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

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

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

For fifteen days Frightful, with Sam’s help, sat through the blasts of the jackhammers and the rumble of trucks.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George