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
By the 17 look of him he was about ready to whang loose through the door.
From Crooked Trails and Straight by D. C. Hutchison
Behind him the hiss of an electric cutting torch and the whang of a heavy hammer went into sudden silence.
From Planet of the Gods by Robert Moore Williams
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 creeshie rax wi' skelpin' kaes Nae mair the howdie bicker whangs, Nor weanies in their wee bit claes Glour light as lammies wi' their sangs.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
Detective De Lora whanged the trunk open with a crowbar.
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
Like a lead pipe whanged against something harder, the Japanese line bent partly around Kiangwan.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sky was lost in smoke, balls of fire whanged in all directions, and the surrounding woodland was magically garnished by endless streamers of colored paper.
From Time Magazine Archive
They turned down Cannery Row and whanged a stone at the corrugated iron front of Morden’s Cannery.
From "Cannery Row" 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
For the whanging of the piano in the saloon beneath had attained to an even greater pitch of discord than was normally the case.
From The Sign of the Spider by Bertram Mitford
