12 Verbs to Use for the Word twanging

You hear the twang, you see the hero's knitted forehead, his eagerness; you tremble;at last you mark his calmer brow, his relaxing smile, and are satisfied that the son is saved!It is difficult to paint in words this extraordinary performance, which I have several times seen; but you feel that it is transcendent.

I made believe that I lived in the neighborhood, imitated the Southern twang, and was set to work right away helping the company cook.

I cried, giving a little foreign twang to the words.

Lanpher plucked at the loose strings of his courage, and managed to draw out a faintly responsive twang.

The first main thing, I say, that makes many sermons so ridicuous, and the preachers of them so much disparaged and undervalued, is an inconsiderate use of frightful Metaphors: which making such a remarkable impression upon the ears, and leaving such a jarring twang behind them, are oftentimes remembered to the discredit of the Minister as long as he continues in the parish.

It is the only dialect of Italy that is at all pleasing to my ear, for I do not at all relish the nasal twang and truncated terminations of the Piedmontese and Lombard dialects, nor the semi-barbarous jargon of the Genoese and the Neapolitan and, least of all, the execrable cacophony of the Bolognese.

And I grant that at that moment she looked noble enough in her anger as she stood discharging her words at me with hissing directness, like bolts shot twanging from the steel cross-bow.

It is positively touching to see old Colonel Patterson subduing his twang and shutting the lid down on his box of comic stories.

I would say to Englishmen travelling in America, don't condescend to the "guessing" and other loose styles of expression, and don't affect the nasal twang.

And that bull among the Kurus, then loosened the string of the large and dreadful Gandiva, ever producing thundering twang and always destructive of hostile hosts, and with which he had conquered, on a single car, gods and men and Nagas and swelling provinces.

I'll bet his backbone's twanging yet!

When Mrs. Errol remarked in her deep voice, that yet compassed the incomparable Yankee twang, that she guessed she wasn't afraid of any man that breathed, none of those who heard the bold assertion ventured to contradict her.

12 Verbs to Use for the Word  twanging