Sentences with phrase «of a jackhammer»

On an early - October afternoon, the sound of jackhammers reverberates through the walls of Build SF's downtown studio.

While I support the point that there is a problem in the health care industry that would allow a person to die because of a lack of insurance, that message is delivered with the finesse of a jackhammer in John Q.

It's a message that may be delivered with the subtlety of a jackhammer, but then, those who might typically want to see a muscle - headed action flick may not really want to be overloaded with nuance and realistic portrayals of the penal process.

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There's the fact that you laugh at their jokes with the force of a jackhammer.

It will create affordability in the midst of what has been the greatest affordability crisis this city has ever experienced,» said Mr. de Blasio, above the din of jackhammers in the distance.

Obsessed with the world's greatest jazz guitarist, (the real) Django Reinhardt, when Emmet's not playing, he has the personality of a jackhammer.

Anecdotally, it sounds similar to a jackhammer, however the loudness is between 10 and 20 times the sound pressure level of a jackhammer (10 to 13 dB greater).

But now found online at Boing Boing Gadgets, a recent child of Jackhammer Jill's venerable Boing Boing.

at him and he couldn't work out how to turn it off, so it just kept doing it at 10 minute intervals — interspersed with the noise of a jackhammer on the road outside our house — until he gave up and stumbled out of bed.

Street traffic can run to 90 dB, the sounds of a jackhammer can reach 100 dB, and the ears of patrons attending a live rock concert can be assaulted by a blaring 110 dB.

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The downhole hammer attaches to the end of a column of drill pipe and cuts through rock with a rapid hammering action similar to that of a jackhammer.

It was an odd grinding - thumping sound that reminded us of a refrigerator compressor that's not long for this world, or the sound of a jackhammer being used five blocks down the street.