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
The Grammy-nominated band, which formed in Houston, is known for its edgy blues twang in popular singles including “La Grange” and “Tush” and across 15 studio albums.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Marriott in Caracas is an unusual sound: Spanish spoken with a Texas twang.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
She says Pilates like “Pee-lates,” the twang in her voice becoming more and more pronounced with the added anxiety.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
“I think if you can pick up your dog with one hand,” Peanut twangs, “you own a cat.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2023
The ball twangs over the bar for another corner.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 19, 2022
In one section of one song, a low, industrial hum rumbles beneath occasional guitar twangs and incomprehensible mumbling voices.
From The Verge ● Feb. 18, 2021
And then there were the twangs from Tom Anderson’s electric guitar playing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2018
They listened to a country radio station turned up so loud that the twangs of steel guitars were distorted in the Hearse's old speakers.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
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
All sorts of strings from the earlier book are picked up and braided, twanged or cauterized.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 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
I plucked at the snare’s tight rope, and it twanged like a guitar string.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
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
But his take on the character, informed by his deep soccer fandom, came to dictate much of how the character was written, he explained, right down to jokes that hinge on Dunster’s twanging accent.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2023
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
The children crawled over the shelves and into the potato and onion bins, twanging all the time in their sharp voices like cigar-box guitars.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
