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whang
verb as in hit
Strong matches
Weak matches
- give a black eye
- knock around
- let fly
- let have it
- ride roughshod
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Example Sentences
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Around here the people seem content to settle for whatever scars life whangs them with as a decoration.
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Or an emptiness so sudden it leaves the girders whanging in the absence of wind, the sky milk-blue and astringent?
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They turned down Cannery Row and whanged a stone at the corrugated iron front of Morden’s Cannery.
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The sharp, pointed fragment hit a hollow tooth and whanged into the nerve.
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I will eat it the second day, but never, ever the third, and certainly not if it has anything resembling a whang.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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