bang out
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Moving to her piano to bang out “If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out” by Cat Stevens, wearing a daisy in her hair that she picked in the cemetery earlier.
From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2026
In that second one, she and two dozen coveralled co-workers bang out some electrocuted, hydraulic choreography while the operation’s giant, once-malfunctioning heart sputters back to life and spews radioactive positivity.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2024
The noise is even worse for her friends if they are inside the school buildings, don’t know a track meet is happening and then hear a bang out of nowhere.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2023
Even when his voice was compromised by cancer of the larynx, Gordon McQueen could bang out a story with all the timing and the humour of a trained comic.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2023
Soon after taking up his position, Davy began to bang out new elements one after another–potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, and aluminum or aluminium, depending on which branch of English you favor.*
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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