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
The lasses, skelpin barefit, thrang, In silks an’ scarlets glitter; Wi’ sweet-milk cheese, in monie a whang, An’ farls bak’d wi’ butter, Fu’ crump that day.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
But aye I wi' my heuk will whang The thistles, if in prickles strang Your bonnie milk-white hands they wrang, When we gang to the shearing.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Charles Rogers
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
A chance to catch a new nightclub star, Trini Lopez, who whangs at his guitar and sings.
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
They were sewed together and patched with deerskin thongs, or whangs as they were commonly called.
From The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852 by Ben Casseday
Shivering spectators applauded, the police band whanged away for all it was worth.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the House-amended bill was offered for unanimous approval by Senator Hatch, Vice President Garner whanged down his gavel and growled: "Without objection, it is so ordered!"
From Time Magazine Archive
"Modernism" being a verbal shinny-can long since whanged out of all shape or precision, art-lovers went to see for themselves.
From Time Magazine Archive
For ten years whooping moppets have whanged rubber and composition automobiles into other toy automobiles, table legs, baseboards.
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
When Nightfall came they would still be edging around the Ring, whanging away, for each was too Game to be a Quitter.
From Knocking the Neighbors by George Ade
