How to Use jackhammer in a Sentence

jackhammer

noun
  • Two small jackhammers worth about $700 were stolen from a side yard.
    — Isha Trivedi, The Mercury News, 16 July 2024
  • The man is swatting a fly with a jackhammer, a sure sign of fear and panic.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2022
  • With each cycling of the levers, the block climbed about a foot and a half, amid jackhammer-like groaning from the ropes.
    — Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
  • The air buzzed with the sound of jackhammers, bulldozers and tree shredders.
    — Kate Selig, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The roar of the crowd and the buzzing of the buzzer as time expires can reach the same volume levels as a jackhammer!
    — Barry Gordemer, NPR, 27 Mar. 2025
  • How can some sleepers doze through anything from the rattle of a jackhammer to the blast of a jet engine?
    — Joseph Calamia, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2010
  • The aural assault of jackhammers and cement trucks fades at the walls of the complex.
    — Fortune, 6 June 2018
  • Workers will be making a ton of noise with a jackhammer or other loud equipment.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The men wielded jackhammers, drilling holes so sticks of dynamite could be pressed into the rock.
    — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
  • And the volume can hit a jackhammer-loud 120 decibels or more.
    — Joyce Cohen, PEOPLE.com, 26 Feb. 2018
  • On cue, a pair of birds appeared, swooping through the air and alighting on dead trees to attack them like jackhammers.
    — Justin Gillis, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2017
  • In most cases, the bones are slowly freed from the rock using dental tools and air-scribes—a type of tiny jackhammer.
    — Hans-Dieter Sues, Smithsonian, 3 Sep. 2019
  • On a nearby street, sirens wail, a jackhammer ricochets, horns blare and birds chatter.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 19 Nov. 2021
  • There’s a constant bombardment of jackhammers and dump trucks.
    — As Told To Patricia R. Olsen, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2018
  • The second is a concrete cube with no visible windows or doors; time to break out the jackhammer.
    — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 12 Mar. 2017
  • The coach’s delivery came with all the subtlety of a jackhammer.
    — Nick Kosmider, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Work crews with jackhammer-like devices drive nails through the metal sheeting into the girder to hold them in place.
    — John Wisely, Detroit Free Press, 26 Sep. 2017
  • The workers parked their truck, hoisted a jackhammer, a full gas can and shovels on their backs, and began to march up through the brush.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2022
  • That drops the noise of an M4 down to about 130 decibels, or about that of a jackhammer.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Nov. 2016
  • Work crews required jackhammers and power saws to slice the skeleton, encased in rock, from the riverbank.
    — National Geographic, 23 Nov. 2016
  • Their tight seal is secure enough to dull the cacophonies of a jackhammer on the street or a chainsaw in the backyard.
    — John Kennedy, Popular Science, 3 Jan. 2020
  • If nothing short of a jackhammer to your headboard will get you up and going in the morning, consider these beans.
    — Popular Science, 17 June 2020
  • Jackhammers, strobe lights and sudden blackouts add to the play's provocative and shocking torture scenes.
    — Alexandra Larkin, CNN, 26 June 2017
  • Developed a new technique with the curtain rod to generate a sort of jackhammer noise.
    — Rasputin Todd, Cincinnati.com, 11 May 2018
  • Rogers ran a jackhammer, cutting down concrete floors and carrying the pieces out in a wheelbarrow.
    — Anjeanette Damon, ProPublica, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Cranes dot the skyline, roads have become muddy potholed lanes and jackhammers resonate late into the night.
    — Julie Zaugg, CNN, 4 Oct. 2019
  • Every day her family digs, breaking through concrete with a jackhammer and their own hands, trying to reach them.
    — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026
  • For that, the decibel level in the press box hit 110 — roughly the level of a jackhammer.
    — Arpon Basu, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
  • The 40-decibel drop is about the difference between the noise from a jackhammer and a hairdryer.
    — Wired, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Teams partied hard with their draft picks the last few years, and in 2025, the hangover is going to hit like a jackhammer.
    — John Hollinger, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025

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