Example Sentences

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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

A transistor radio twanged on a seawall where a Hawaiian family picnicked on the sand.

From The New Yorker • May 25, 2015

He twanged the guitar, hoping the noise would disturb the pair huddled in the garden.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer