twang
verb (used without object)
to give out a sharp, vibrating sound, as the string of a musical instrument when plucked.
have twanged
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present perfectof twang.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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A brilliant ambitious wife in the same house with Hamilton might have written a picturesque diary, but the domestic instrument would have twanged with discords.
From The Conqueror by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Once more the slack was taken up and the wire grew taut—so taut it would have twanged like a fiddle-string if it had been struck.
From The Man from the Bitter Roots by Caroline Lockhart
"And when Heavy failed to oversleep one morning last half the marble harp must have twanged that time," declared Mary Cox.
From Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall or Solving the Campus Mystery by Alice B. Emerson
How he would have made the pillars quiver! how the ripe old notes would have twanged and brayed into the darkest recesses!
From A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg by Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald
Even the piano, which must have twanged out the tunes of at least three nations since the war began, had sacrificed its cover for firewood.
From Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France by Vernon Bartlett
