whang

Around here the people seem content to settle for whatever scars life whangs them with as a decoration.

Or an emptiness so sudden it leaves the girders whanging in the absence of wind, the sky milk-blue and astringent?

They turned down Cannery Row and whanged a stone at the corrugated iron front of Morden’s Cannery.

The sharp, pointed fragment hit a hollow tooth and whanged into the nerve.

I will eat it the second day, but never, ever the third, and certainly not if it has anything resembling a whang.