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

Patient, persistent mediocrity is expressed by the Red-eye's song, and only his nasal, petulant call-note, whang, suggests that he is not altogether satisfied with life as he finds it.

From What Bird is That? A Pocket Museum of the Land Birds of the Eastern United States Arranged According to Season by Chapman, Frank M.