twang
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On the one hand, his vocal stylings are well-suited to affect a slightly country twang — by way of Liverpool, of course.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 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
A Midwestern twang is "a very feet on the ground, back in the heels of your boots type of accent", she said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026
Breezy and soothing with a light twang, his singing style allowed for space, letting him take on the role of a storyteller.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026
Levy said with his distinctive Baltimore drawl: a trace of a southern twang with words contracted and vowels swallowed.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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
In one section of one song, a low, industrial hum rumbles beneath occasional guitar twangs and incomprehensible mumbling voices.
From The Verge ● Feb. 18, 2021
The song ends with her catching her breath, surrounded by barking dogs and high bass twangs, summit scaled.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 18, 2020
Level One Texas is the Texas most outsiders know, the cowboys and Tex-Mex and nasal twangs.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2018
Fences snapped with melodious twangs as he plowed through, the strands sometimes whizzing past his ears.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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
As the opening bars twanged, I chuckled into the mike and asked, “Are you guys ready to be sad?”
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2017
A transistor radio twanged on a seawall where a Hawaiian family picnicked on the sand.
From The New Yorker ● May 25, 2015
Kit jumped as the square clock in the corner twanged eight o’clock.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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
But his take on the character, informed by his deep soccer fandom, came to dictate much of how the character was written, he explained, right down to jokes that hinge on Dunster’s twanging accent.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2023
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 was no tune to it, but it possessed a curious twanging quality as of plucked strings.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
