Example Sentences
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Leaving the harbor in a fog, she whanged into a British freighter, had to put back to repair damaged plates.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every time a Red tank or scout car headed down the road, a well-hidden 75 whanged at it and umpires knocked it out.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sky was lost in smoke, balls of fire whanged in all directions, and the surrounding woodland was magically garnished by endless streamers of colored paper.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like a lead pipe whanged against something harder, the Japanese line bent partly around Kiangwan.
From Time Magazine Archive
They turned down Cannery Row and whanged a stone at the corrugated iron front of Morden’s Cannery.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
