How to use "hammering" in a sentence

Smith is about to speak when a loud hammering sound starts, and Bowen shakes his head

Then the hammering they heard in the headmaster's office starts again, and the policemen go to the door.

The hammering noise

But if these men are not hammering.

And somewhere in the dark Mr Fletcher stops hammering his foot against the new wall

And all night the sound of hammering could be heard as the Martians worked on the machines they were making ready.

They were busy in the pit, and there was the sound of hammering and a column of smoke

For hours we lay there in the darkness, while from outside came the sounds of hammering and then, after some time, a sound like an engine