jackhammer
Americannoun
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jackhammers
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noun
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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
“Thank you very much,” said the interviewer and turned to a jackhammer operator who had come to the park to fill his water bottle.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
The roar of bulldozers and jackhammers drilling into piles of debris is almost constant.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025
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
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
Less than a century later, Southern California was mushrooming into a metropolis amid showers of welder’s sparks, clanking jackhammers, lumbering earthmovers, and flashy new cultural and commercial landmarks rearing skyward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2023
Men with ear protectors picked up their jackhammers and tested them.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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