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
“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
Marriott in Caracas is an unusual sound: Spanish spoken with a Texas twang.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
“To aging Walter Mitty types like myself, Dick Bass was an inspiration,” Seaborn Beck Weathers explained in a thick East Texas twang during the trek to Everest Base Camp last April.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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
Along the way, we get a spectacular sonic counterpart of drones, glitches, bleeps, twangs and pulsations.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 6, 2017
There are a few experimental twangs and booms from behind the curtain as the instruments are plugged in and tested.
From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli
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
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
Cue another blast of banjo, twanging down the line from Dallas.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 24, 2019
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
“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
