jackhammer
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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
A tiny, transparent fish makes a sound as loud as a jackhammer, scientists have discovered.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2024
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
“There will be a moment in time in 2028 when there will be no construction at LAX. There will be no jackhammers in the central terminal, there will be no orange cones,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 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
“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
The jackhammers are aminocyanine molecules, a class of fluorescent synthetic dyes used for medical imaging.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 19, 2023
The constant vibrations from two jackhammers trembled the huge horizontal web, but Frightful stayed with her eggs.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
