twang

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Recent Examples of twang Country's crossover year: Beyoncé led a cadre of pop megastars who flirted with country twang this year. Adam Tamburin, Axios, 23 Dec. 2024 The poignant delivery was paired with Baker’s skilful twangs on banjo and Torres’ talents on the guitar. Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 11 Dec. 2024 As some have noted, the topical focus does strike in me a weird moralizing twang — What’s up with that? Lily Burana, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024 Pairing her raw lyrics with soft guitar twangs and sweeping violin breaks, Lenker makes depicting quiet devastation and eventual recovery look easy. EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for twang 
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Noun
  • This Christmas Time Tour is, obviously, constructed around Carey’s commandeering of the holiday thanks to a sweet jangle of an anthem.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2024
  • These are recipes where modernity jangles with the delicious rhythms of the past.
    Scott Hocker, theweek, 27 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The tang of Zing Zang transports me to the crowded confines of my grandmother’s wet bar, where the adults mixed batches of Bloody Mary’s as family slowly trickled in on Christmas Day.
    Elizabeth Hutchison Hicklin, Southern Living, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Flavor Red velvet offers a nuanced, luxurious flavor profile that entails sweet notes of vanilla balanced by a pleasant tang from the buttermilk and vinegar, all rounded out with a muted hint of cocoa.
    Darcy Lenz, Southern Living, 28 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The high-contrast black-and-white rattle offers plenty of visual appeal for additional stimulation.
    Pamela Brill, Parents, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Tribal members dressed in their finest regalia–silver, turquoise, coral, shell, feathers–shake gourd rattles in a ring enclosing the Deer Dancers and two Deer Maidens.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The door chime at their floral and gift shop tinkles every few minutes as another customer and friend comes in to collect their $10 bows.
    Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2024
  • On our first evening the piano bar—resplendent in gold Thai silks, with tiger orchids blooming across the green carpet—was filled with laughter, the glug-glug-glug of Champagne pouring, and the tinkle of keys.
    Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 May 2024
Noun
  • And now, a bonus memory … In the 1970s, as a newcomer to New York session playing, I was called to play on a jingle — a one-hour session — for Old Spice.
    Devon Ivie, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Also in the top 10 of the latest Billboard 200, Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas jingles back to the top 10 for a seventh consecutive holiday season, as the 1994 release climbs 14-10.
    Keith Caulfield, Billboard, 22 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • In the coastal towns, surfers line the golden sand beaches and tuk-tuks zip along twisting roads, their horns blending with the rhythmic clink of fishmongers’ knives and the sizzle of hoppers frying in street stalls.
    Christine Chitnis, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2025
  • When given a shake, the piece emits echoing clinks evocative of rushing water.
    Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 22 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • His perfect armor will begin to exhibit chinks at some time, and his infallibility will become exactly the opposite.
    Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Though 2024 didn't deliver a more conclusive answer to this mystery than any of the 25 years before it, a significant chink has appeared in the armor of dark energy, a tantalizing hint that could put scientists on the right path to solving this pressing cosmological puzzle.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 31 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Within hours of arriving, what sounded like a distant peal of thunder rolled in—in this case, the rumble of a harmless, but still awe-inspiring, small-scale avalanche.
    Samantha Falewée, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Many of the ringers wore earplugs or headphones to muffle the deafening peals.
    Joseph Wilson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 July 2024

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“Twang.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/twang. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.

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