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
“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
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
For hours on end the whir of the spinning wheel and the twang of the loom were the only sounds.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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
Vinegar is the last, vital touch, the sourness that twangs the nerve and startles the other flavors into focus.
From New York Times ● Feb. 16, 2022
The song ends with her catching her breath, surrounded by barking dogs and high bass twangs, summit scaled.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 18, 2020
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
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
These scores, drastic now as then, are explorations of sonority; the piano is played, banged, tapped, twanged.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2016
But things went from bad to worse when Sánchez’s right hamstring twanged in the 59th minute.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2015
He unpacked a coil of metal that twanged and glittered from a steel box in his backpack.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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
Lamott was an anxious child, twanging to “the vibrational intensity,” as she said, of an unhappy family; bedeviled by tics and migraines, she found respite in humor and chapter books.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2018
Line is twanging like the high string on a steel guitar as the fish rises up to the surface, pulling the skiff behind it.
From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick
