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There is no mistaking a strong Gallic twang as Balshaw, who celebrated the first ATP Tour victory of his career this week, discusses his journey.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 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

“How many times are you gonna let him do you wrong until you realize that you have the right guy in front of you?” said Alejandro Tellez in a sing-song twang.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

Then, from behind me, the echo of guitars and fiddles twang.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Heard in the warm, Americana twangs that complete “Kansas Anymore,” these sounds are an ode to his upbringing in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025

A berimbau, the one-stringed percussion instrument prized in Bahia, Brazil, twangs its way through this song by Baden Powell and Vinicius de Moraes.

From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2023

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

Level One Texas is the Texas most outsiders know, the cowboys and Tex-Mex and nasal twangs.

From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2018

Then came hooves and the twangs of bows, and arrows were suddenly falling amongst the Death Eaters, who broke ranks, shouting their surprise.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

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

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

From The New Yorker ● May 25, 2015

No other rule change has ever twanged the British footballing psyche so seductively, dovetailing perfectly as it does with the ingrained reliance on the long pass out of defence.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 22, 2011

About an hour later Mrs. Valerie Pickwell twanged open her back screen door, stood on the step, and whistled.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli

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

There’s plenty of peppy synthpop and new wave, but also laid back lounge-rock, twanging alt-country and, on the party-starting Blood, the hipster reincarnation of the KLF.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 28, 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