whang

Example Sentences

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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

Toward the end, a solo piper�spotlighted on a platform as though he were walking a battlement�softly plays Lights Out, and with a final scream of pipes and whang of drums the Watch marches out.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here is an old-time bard trying manfully to "whang 'is bloomin' lyre" to the rhythms of his youth.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here, Nelly,' he would say to the child's eldest sister, 'give him a brave whang of bread, to make him able to bate the Caseys.

From The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William