Twanging

Tom Mitchenall, 17, had hooked a large carp and was jostling with the heavy fish when the line snapped sending the slender plastic float "twanging" back at him like an arrow. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Joan and Sheldon heard the twanging thrum and saw Koogoo throw out his arms, at the same time dropping his rifle, stumble forward, and sink down on his hands and knees. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There were clanging cow bells and twanging guitars, trumpets and vuvuzelas. ❋ Brady Dennis (2011)

Jean-Sébastien Coté deftly inserted into his own score, which includes a lot of oriental drumming and twanging, appropriately moving baroque music for violin, cello and keyboards by J.S. and C.P.E. Bach, Antonio Soler, and the Chevalier Saint-Georges—who shows up as a character onstage, in an English music-hall "duel" with the aging, indigent and apparently female d'Éon. ❋ David Littlejohn (2011)

Baluch tribesmen screech into these road stops driving old autos and motorcycles, wearing Arab head scarves, speaking in harsh gutturals, and playing music whose rumbling rhythms, so unlike the introspective twanging ragas of the subcontinent, reverberate with the spirit of Arabia. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The two elements came together best when the poet (Costa prize-winning Christopher Reid) made you look again – the wine bottle bowing to one glass then whispering in the ear of the other; the laminated menu "twanging like a riot policeman's shield"; the "wooden phallus" of the pepper pot "scattering seed". ❋ Phil Hogan (2010)

The radio was twanging out a country song when she entered. ❋ Janet Dailey (2011)

Perry will be Herbert Hoover in cowboy boots, twanging about cluelessly, unable to understand why he's overseeing a Depression worse than the first, as increasingly severe natural disasters gut an aging infrastructure left to fall into disrepair. ❋ Mark Olmsted (2011)

The army … threw me in the forests of Missouri for 10 weeks with an old M-16, Reagan-era load-bearing equipment and 50 twanging people hailing from places like Texas, Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi … joy. ❋ Unknown (2011)

To supplement televised appearances that find Mr. Young twanging away on guitar in a fringed leather vest, his archival team put out a call to fans, and incorporated shaky bootleg film and video footage from concerts. ❋ John Jurgensen (2011)

Instantly the entire sphere burst into a mighty whispering, sharp with protest, almost twanging goldenly, if a whisper could possibly be considered to twang, rising higher, sinking deeper, the two extremes of the registry of sound threatening to complete the circle and coalesce into the bull-mouthed thundering he had so often heard beyond the taboo distance. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Cavernous drums open proceedings on Suzanne And I, then ominous, twanging guitar lines ring out before Calvi steps up to the microphone. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It sort of works, with Luca Tom Hardy playing a Vauxhall gay club bouncer dropping twanging guitars and harmonicas over some big room beats. ❋ Unknown (2011)

They are multi-instrumentalists who can switch to ballads and laments, adding in bagpipes, bouzouki, flutes, wailingTurkish horns, blues harp or even a twanging, virtuoso duet on duelling mouth harps. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A quick investigation reveals that a similar word, pengö (an onomatopoeic term for ringing or twanging), was the unit of currency in Hungary before the forint was introduced. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[You would] put a Twang Twang [inside] a [Twat]! ❋ Candeegirl31 (2003)

I asked [Cam] to [lend] me a [twange] so I could see the movie. ❋ UtahSass (2016)

"She (twang) [left me]" if a [western] music [singer] used a twang. ❋ Nick Czapi (2008)

Mate I am so [twanged] [off of] that [balloon] ❋ Berookes (2017)

"Damn dude, this [salsa] has some [real good] [TWANG] to it." -imaqtpie ❋ Twanggggg (2016)

[Alexa]’s Pussy [twang] was too much, i had to used [mouth wash] and pop a mint gum right after! ❋ Mikehawkard111 (2019)

Yo, that [girls] [pussy] had a [twang] to it . ❋ Frank White (2016)

[Sergio] let me [eat] [ya ass]... Twanggg ❋ La Trokita Blanca (2018)

"Most of [the people] I [work] with are [a bunch] of twanges" ❋ Twange Lover (2006)

Bro, she fine but damn [that thang] had a [lil] too much [twang] for me ❋ I'm Not Frank (2021)