twang
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On the one hand, his vocal stylings are well-suited to affect a slightly country twang — by way of Liverpool, of course.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026
Wearing cowboy boots and a handlebar mustache, he had a Texas twang and a quiet, calm presence that disarmed suspects, eliciting confessions.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026
A Midwestern twang is "a very feet on the ground, back in the heels of your boots type of accent", she said.
From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026
The shouts — a husky voice with a Southern surf bro twang — echoed in the dojo as a 4-year-old blond boy with a headband reading “Lil’ Dragon” punched up at a scowling mannequin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2025
The walls rattled, and I followed the twang of a cheerful country song toward Charlie's room.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
“Hurry on Home,” the album’s first single, stomps and twangs efficiently, harking back to Joan Jett and the B-52s while flaunting an artificial chorale singing “ahhh,” determined to grab the ear.
From New York Times ● Aug. 14, 2019
But the animated Disney series’ title tune is the undisputed perfect match: his little shoulders pop at all the right bass twangs, and when the scissors speed up, so do his moves.
From The Verge ● Dec. 27, 2018
Level One Texas is the Texas most outsiders know, the cowboys and Tex-Mex and nasal twangs.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2018
Along the way, we get a spectacular sonic counterpart of drones, glitches, bleeps, twangs and pulsations.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 6, 2017
They listened to a country radio station turned up so loud that the twangs of steel guitars were distorted in the Hearse's old speakers.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
He added: "I ambitiously broke into a sprint, then that leg twanged and the other leg twanged and I knew something had gone seriously wrong with my hamstrings."
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2023
With “Old Town Road,” Lil Nas X twanged country tropes over a trap beat, kicked off a yee-haw agenda and launched a pop career off the back of a novelty hit.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2022
As the opening bars twanged, I chuckled into the mike and asked, “Are you guys ready to be sad?”
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2017
But things went from bad to worse when Sánchez’s right hamstring twanged in the 59th minute.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 29, 2015
Far too late I jumped up to give chase, but my snake-clasp belt twanged undone, my trousers unhoiked, and I flew head over arse like Laurel and Hardy.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
Over a pleasantly discordant score of dreamy electronic chords and twanging banjos, Matthew finds pencil marks charting his growth as a child while these parents fuss over their own new baby.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025
Mr. Cook’s main influence as a guitarist was James Burton, who made muscular, twanging contributions to the bands of Ricky Nelson, Elvis Presley and Gram Parsons.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2022
Ball, who is remembered in a statue in the Lancashire town of Lytham where he lived for more than 20 years, was famous for twanging his braces on stage, while saying: "Rock on, Tommy."
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2022
What comes next is the kind of thing that works, as Jesús launches into the defiant tune “Born in Laredo,” driven by a twanging, sidewinding guitar.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2019
There was no tune to it, but it possessed a curious twanging quality as of plucked strings.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
