twang

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

“To aging Walter Mitty types like myself, Dick Bass was an inspiration,” Seaborn Beck Weathers explained in a thick East Texas twang during the trek to Everest Base Camp last April.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

From the first, Dias claims a penalty as his header twangs off Cooper at close range ... but the referee calls it correctly, the ball having bounced off the Leeds defender’s head.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 3, 2020

“Hurry on Home,” the album’s first single, stomps and twangs efficiently, harking back to Joan Jett and the B-52s while flaunting an artificial chorale singing “ahhh,” determined to grab the ear.

From New York Times ● Aug. 14, 2019

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

And then there were the twangs from Tom Anderson’s electric guitar playing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2018

The fence clangs and twangs like a weird musical instrument, and the nose of the truck begins to dip forward, revealing a gorge like a roller-coaster drop.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

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

Palace appear to be without an out-and-out striker too - although that seems to be down to advanced tactical thinking rather than any hamstrings being twanged.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 8, 2015

A transistor radio twanged on a seawall where a Hawaiian family picnicked on the sand.

From The New Yorker ● May 25, 2015

The unearthly cry twanged the air again, but this time Razi wasn’t afraid.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

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

“I’ve got a musical message to deliver to ’Arry Potter in person,” he said, twanging his harp in a threatening sort of way.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling