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With a rollicking mix of high-energy country twang, twisty ballads and production-heavy pop hits bolstered by her crisp belt, she made the stage her own.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

When he does speak, his words carry a faint Southern twang from his upbringing in Alabama.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

She was comfortable in her own skin, and audiences found her Tennessee twang and plainspokenness endearing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

On the one hand, his vocal stylings are well-suited to affect a slightly country twang — by way of Liverpool, of course.

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026

But I could still hear him as I walked away, the hard twang of his answer, almost joyous, When and where, Harry, when and where.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

Heard in the warm, Americana twangs that complete “Kansas Anymore,” these sounds are an ode to his upbringing in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025

From the first, Dias claims a penalty as his header twangs off Cooper at close range ... but the referee calls it correctly, the ball having bounced off the Leeds defender’s head.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 3, 2020

“Hurry on Home,” the album’s first single, stomps and twangs efficiently, harking back to Joan Jett and the B-52s while flaunting an artificial chorale singing “ahhh,” determined to grab the ear.

From New York Times ● Aug. 14, 2019

But the animated Disney series’ title tune is the undisputed perfect match: his little shoulders pop at all the right bass twangs, and when the scissors speed up, so do his moves.

From The Verge ● Dec. 27, 2018

They listened to a country radio station turned up so loud that the twangs of steel guitars were distorted in the Hearse's old speakers.

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green

He added: "I ambitiously broke into a sprint, then that leg twanged and the other leg twanged and I knew something had gone seriously wrong with my hamstrings."

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2023

With “Old Town Road,” Lil Nas X twanged country tropes over a trap beat, kicked off a yee-haw agenda and launched a pop career off the back of a novelty hit.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2022

All sorts of strings from the earlier book are picked up and braided, twanged or cauterized.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2022

A transistor radio twanged on a seawall where a Hawaiian family picnicked on the sand.

From The New Yorker ● May 25, 2015

This marked the first time Pacheco had seen him fly, and his heart twanged like a melodramatic soap opera chord.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

Over a pleasantly discordant score of dreamy electronic chords and twanging banjos, Matthew finds pencil marks charting his growth as a child while these parents fuss over their own new baby.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025

Ball, who is remembered in a statue in the Lancashire town of Lytham where he lived for more than 20 years, was famous for twanging his braces on stage, while saying: "Rock on, Tommy."

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2022

What comes next is the kind of thing that works, as Jesús launches into the defiant tune “Born in Laredo,” driven by a twanging, sidewinding guitar.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2019

There’s plenty of peppy synthpop and new wave, but also laid back lounge-rock, twanging alt-country and, on the party-starting Blood, the hipster reincarnation of the KLF.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 28, 2018

There was no tune to it, but it possessed a curious twanging quality as of plucked strings.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov