whangs
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present tense formof whang (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
whangnouna resounding blow.
Example Sentences
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And the name which Queen Mary will cry as she whangs the bottle, will not be Britannia, but Victoria.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A chance to catch a new nightclub star, Trini Lopez, who whangs at his guitar and sings.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It regularly whangs New York's archaic divorce laws and the breach of promise racket.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Around here the people seem content to settle for whatever scars life whangs them with as a decoration.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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He had goods second-hand and new, fish-hooks and marbles, pot-metal knives with brass handles, slate-pencils that would "break square," which were greatly desired by all, skate-straps, and buckskin whangs.
From Glengarry School Days: a story of early days in Glengarry by Ralph Connor