twang
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Bush may have been a poor public speaker with a thick Texas twang, but he was no fool.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
When he does speak, his words carry a faint Southern twang from his upbringing in Alabama.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
She was comfortable in her own skin, and audiences found her Tennessee twang and plainspokenness endearing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Wearing cowboy boots and a handlebar mustache, he had a Texas twang and a quiet, calm presence that disarmed suspects, eliciting confessions.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026
Then, from behind me, the echo of guitars and fiddles twang.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
A berimbau, the one-stringed percussion instrument prized in Bahia, Brazil, twangs its way through this song by Baden Powell and Vinicius de Moraes.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
The ball twangs over the bar for another corner.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 19, 2022
But the animated Disney series’ title tune is the undisputed perfect match: his little shoulders pop at all the right bass twangs, and when the scissors speed up, so do his moves.
From The Verge ● Dec. 27, 2018
Level One Texas is the Texas most outsiders know, the cowboys and Tex-Mex and nasal twangs.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2018
There are a few experimental twangs and booms from behind the curtain as the instruments are plugged in and tested.
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
He added: "I ambitiously broke into a sprint, then that leg twanged and the other leg twanged and I knew something had gone seriously wrong with my hamstrings."
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2023
With “Old Town Road,” Lil Nas X twanged country tropes over a trap beat, kicked off a yee-haw agenda and launched a pop career off the back of a novelty hit.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2022
But things went from bad to worse when Sánchez’s right hamstring twanged in the 59th minute.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2015
A transistor radio twanged on a seawall where a Hawaiian family picnicked on the sand.
From The New Yorker ● May 25, 2015
He unpacked a coil of metal that twanged and glittered from a steel box in his backpack.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
Over a pleasantly discordant score of dreamy electronic chords and twanging banjos, Matthew finds pencil marks charting his growth as a child while these parents fuss over their own new baby.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025
Ball, who is remembered in a statue in the Lancashire town of Lytham where he lived for more than 20 years, was famous for twanging his braces on stage, while saying: "Rock on, Tommy."
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2022
What comes next is the kind of thing that works, as Jesús launches into the defiant tune “Born in Laredo,” driven by a twanging, sidewinding guitar.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2019
And that all came from Ms. Franklin — her rumbling, twanging, compartmentalized arrangement.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2018
There was no tune to it, but it possessed a curious twanging quality as of plucked strings.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
