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
If fretting pays you, fret; And get into a pet, And slam and bang The doors with a whang, And flame and flare, And say "Don't care."
From Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 by E. W. (Edward William) Cole
"F'r God's sake don't whang away on that string forever, as if I didn't know it!"
From Wayside Courtships by Hamlin Garland
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
As I sewed the whangs through the rips and hastily patched the holes I could see her worriment was increasing.
From A Virginia Scout by D. C. Hutchison
Every time a Red tank or scout car headed down the road, a well-hidden 75 whanged at it and umpires knocked it out.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like a lead pipe whanged against something harder, the Japanese line bent partly around Kiangwan.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the melee, Charles Farrell romped by, whanged the ball between the posts for a goal.
From Time Magazine Archive
Leaving the harbor in a fog, she whanged into a British freighter, had to put back to repair damaged plates.
From Time Magazine Archive
They turned down Cannery Row and whanged a stone at the corrugated iron front of Morden’s Cannery.
From "Cannery Row" 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
Till awakened By the clanging And the banging And the whanging From the cupola o'erhanging, Of that ancient Gym bell!
From The Varmint by Frederic Rodrigo Gruger
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