whang
Example Sentences
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Phil Mickelson slid down a hill on his butt like he was riding a saucer, and John Daly decided to whang a club into Lake Michigan in mid-tantrum.
From Washington Post • Aug. 14, 2015
Along Broadway and Commerce streets the whine and whang of steel-string guitars floated through doorways.
From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2014
Toward the end, a solo piper�spotlighted on a platform as though he were walking a battlement�softly plays Lights Out, and with a final scream of pipes and whang of drums the Watch marches out.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Here is an old-time bard trying manfully to "whang 'is bloomin' lyre" to the rhythms of his youth.
From Time Magazine Archive
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As he did so, with a whang stinging his nerves like needles of fire, one end of the descending object met his suspended foot full force, bending it up under him like a hinge.
From Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car by Chapman, Allen