bang

Example Sentences

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That’s where I feel like you get more bang for your buck.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

Rick Atkinson’s “The British Are Coming,” about the Revolutionary War, is beautifully written and started off with a bang, but soon the accounts of battles, with their obligatory suffering and death, became too much.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

The market for initial public offerings has been reignited with a bang, as the shares of two companies valued at more than $10 billion are set to start trading on Thursday.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026

“As the lineman would go down the street, bringing cable to the city, the people would run alongside their trucks, bang on his side, and say, ‘When can we have it?’

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

In 1965 several astrophysicists at Princeton University were calculating what would have happened right after the big bang.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife