twang

There is no mistaking a strong Gallic twang as Balshaw, who celebrated the first ATP Tour victory of his career this week, discusses his journey.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

“Beloved daughters of God!” she shouts, her Texas twang chicken-frying each word.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Bush may have been a poor public speaker with a thick Texas twang, but he was no fool.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

I flinched as steel came in contact with steel, the sharp metallic twang accompanied by a flash of sparks.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

The ball twangs over the bar for another corner.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 19, 2022

Vinegar is the last, vital touch, the sourness that twangs the nerve and startles the other flavors into focus.

From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2022

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

The fence clangs and twangs like a weird musical instrument, and the nose of the truck begins to dip forward, revealing a gorge like a roller-coaster drop.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

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

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

From The New Yorker ● May 25, 2015

Ol’ Danny Barnes, a Washington State-based singer and banjoist, twanged and crooned before a hooting audience of Astorians who had poured into the space on their way home from work.

From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2011

I plucked at the snare’s tight rope, and it twanged like a guitar string.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer

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

But his take on the character, informed by his deep soccer fandom, came to dictate much of how the character was written, he explained, right down to jokes that hinge on Dunster’s twanging accent.

From New York Times ● May 31, 2023

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

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov