Example Sentences

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A chance to catch a new nightclub star, Trini Lopez, who whangs at his guitar and sings.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

The automatic piano in the penny arcade whangs dolorously into a forgotten tango.

From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Hecht, Ben