twang
verb (used without object)
to give out a sharp, vibrating sound, as the string of a musical instrument when plucked.
was twanging
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past progressiveof twang.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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And he was playing no one but himself, whether he was twanging through "Crazy Heart" songs or playing tunes from his new, self-titled major-label debut.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 29, 2011
Yorty, meanwhile, was twanging the only string left to him.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even as the Web was twanging with news of the Maxus scam, Attorney General Janet Reno proposed a crime-fighting network designed to combat just such cybercriminality.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every nerve in my body was twanging like the “e” string on a fiddler’s fiddle.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
It was twanging like a harp-string, at the rate of nearly a hundred and fifty a minute.
From A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
