whang
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Phil Mickelson slid down a hill on his butt like he was riding a saucer, and John Daly decided to whang a club into Lake Michigan in mid-tantrum.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 14, 2015
Along Broadway and Commerce streets the whine and whang of steel-string guitars floated through doorways.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2014
Here is an old-time bard trying manfully to "whang 'is bloomin' lyre" to the rhythms of his youth.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here, Nelly,' he would say to the child's eldest sister, 'give him a brave whang of bread, to make him able to bate the Caseys.
From The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton
But Siddy frowns on it, and if Miss Nefer ever caught me at it I think she'd whang me.
From No Great Magic by Fritz Leiber
It regularly whangs New York's archaic divorce laws and the breach of promise racket.
From Time Magazine Archive
And the name which Queen Mary will cry as she whangs the bottle, will not be Britannia, but Victoria.
From Time Magazine Archive
A chance to catch a new nightclub star, Trini Lopez, who whangs at his guitar and sings.
From Time Magazine Archive
Around here the people seem content to settle for whatever scars life whangs them with as a decoration.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
Ye cut lang whangs aff ither folk's leather.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
In the melee, Charles Farrell romped by, whanged the ball between the posts for a goal.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sky was lost in smoke, balls of fire whanged in all directions, and the surrounding woodland was magically garnished by endless streamers of colored paper.
From Time Magazine Archive
While a six-piece combo whanged away, dukes and duchesses danced alongside Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Hollywood's Mike Romanoff.
From Time Magazine Archive
For ten years whooping moppets have whanged rubber and composition automobiles into other toy automobiles, table legs, baseboards.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sharp, pointed fragment hit a hollow tooth and whanged into the nerve.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Or an emptiness so sudden it leaves the girders whanging in the absence of wind, the sky milk-blue and astringent?
From Economist ● Jan. 25, 2018
Her strokes had so much force behind them they practically made whanging noises and would have done good work in a foundry.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 6, 2015
The night before the convention closed, Ron Paul took the stage to the whanging guitar opening of “Revolution” by the Beatles.
From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2014
Which is a hell of a thing to do when, as Edwards says, you have 16-year-old fast bowlers whanging down beamers at your head to try and prove a point.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 25, 2011
When Nightfall came they would still be edging around the Ring, whanging away, for each was too Game to be a Quitter.
From Knocking the Neighbors by George Ade
