banging

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The group tackled Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” with Lopez leading the singing as her family and friends joined in—while waving their napkins in the air and banging on the tables.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

I’d sleep all morning, then creep out of the apartment when school was over and run back in banging doors, shouting to nobody, “I’m home!”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

She says Eric Adusah was shouting and it sounded like he was banging a table as he spoke.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

On Wednesday, several dozen people, some banging pots and pans, protested against power outages in the San Miguel del Padron neighborhood on Havana's outskirts, a resident told AFP.

From Barron's • May 14, 2026

Rowdy and I hadn’t been in the hole ten minutes when from somewhere in the bottoms an old woodpecker started banging away on a dead snag.

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls