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Did the French monarchy end not with a bang—or a whimper—but a smile?

More clumsily, fireworks stand in for the Big Bang and a potato and peas are invoked to explain relativity.

This professional seducer, of sorts, has been pictured holding a T-shirt reading “Diss Fatties, Bang Hotties.”

As ends of eras go, he recalls, it was mostly whimper and not much bang.

In 1996, John Paul II called the Big Bang theory “more than a hypothesis.”

Bang went the fragile bulb, as it splintered into a thousand atoms, and the mercury shot in sparkling globules over the table.

Garnache closed the door upon him with a bang, and smiled quietly as he turned to Valerie.

Miss Boutts replied that they were too busy in the daytime, but were asked once a week to a "bang-up" affair.

Immediately the door was opened just enough to let the two men glide in; then it was shut with a bang and bolted.

She closed the stove door with a bang, and approaching, assisted in removing Edna's dripping mackintosh.