twang
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“And I did my Rogue voice, which is basically just my own, but with a bit of a Southern accent thrown on,” she adds with a slight twang.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
On the one hand, his vocal stylings are well-suited to affect a slightly country twang — by way of Liverpool, of course.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 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
A Midwestern twang is "a very feet on the ground, back in the heels of your boots type of accent", she said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026
Then, from behind me, the echo of guitars and fiddles twang.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
It pounds along with the beat of drums and shakers, chords splashing on acoustic and electric guitars, accented with banjo twangs and the birdlike cries of various flutes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2023
“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
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
Level One Texas is the Texas most outsiders know, the cowboys and Tex-Mex and nasal twangs.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2018
Fences snapped with melodious twangs as he plowed through, the strands sometimes whizzing past his ears.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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
As the opening bars twanged, I chuckled into the mike and asked, “Are you guys ready to be sad?”
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2017
But things went from bad to worse when Sánchez’s right hamstring twanged in the 59th minute.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 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
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
A political cartoonist and a history teacher from the Ivory Coast, they made twanging country music from slide guitar, peppy strumming, and yearning vocals in three languages.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 10, 2018
Harry picked it up and stared at it, his heart twanging like a giant elastic band.
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
