whang
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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
Here is an old-time bard trying manfully to "whang 'is bloomin' lyre" to the rhythms of his youth.
From Time Magazine Archive
That "whang" was the blow with which the door, wrenched off its hinges, was flung against the side of the wood-house.
From Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Ten Christmas stories by Hale, Edward E.
Within two weeks nearly everything had either appeared or been promised, except a Chinese gong with a proper "whang" to it, an unbreakable sky-blue bowl and the mulberry tree!
From One-Act Plays By Modern Authors by Various
A chance to catch a new nightclub star, Trini Lopez, who whangs at his guitar and sings.
From Time Magazine Archive
It regularly whangs New York's archaic divorce laws and the breach of promise racket.
From Time Magazine Archive
And the name which Queen Mary will cry as she whangs the bottle, will not be Britannia, but Victoria.
From Time Magazine Archive
Around here the people seem content to settle for whatever scars life whangs them with as a decoration.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
The automatic piano in the penny arcade whangs dolorously into a forgotten tango.
From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Hecht, Ben
Sixteen pent-up voices serenaded The Little Man Who Wasn't There; assorted whistlers, fiddlers, ladybug plunkers whanged away at heart strings beyond the walls.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every time a Red tank or scout car headed down the road, a well-hidden 75 whanged at it and umpires knocked it out.
From Time Magazine Archive
Leaving the harbor in a fog, she whanged into a British freighter, had to put back to repair damaged plates.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just as at opening of opera or cinema, news photographers whanged away to the giddy glare of flash bulbs.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sharp, pointed fragment hit a hollow tooth and whanged into the nerve.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Or an emptiness so sudden it leaves the girders whanging in the absence of wind, the sky milk-blue and astringent?
From Economist ● Jan. 25, 2018
Her strokes had so much force behind them they practically made whanging noises and would have done good work in a foundry.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 6, 2015
The night before the convention closed, Ron Paul took the stage to the whanging guitar opening of “Revolution” by the Beatles.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2014
Which is a hell of a thing to do when, as Edwards says, you have 16-year-old fast bowlers whanging down beamers at your head to try and prove a point.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 25, 2011
Then I will have the exquisite pleasure of taking my niblick, and whanging it out for the loss of a stroke.
From Murder in Any Degree by Johnson, Owen
