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Example sentences for "twanged"

Lexicographically close words:
twae; twaine; twal; twam; twang; twanging; twangling; twangs; twant; twanty
  1. You ever twanged one string, and I felt that your words, if overheard, might endanger us all.

  2. Her bow had twanged at the moment when he had himself felt like a very small boy indeed, about to be stepped upon by the worst claws in the world.

  3. The sharp blade went in, up to the crosspiece, just as the bow of Tah-nu-nu twanged again, and there were piercing shrieks on all sides.

  4. Three times Telemachus twanged the bow, and three times his arrows sped along the hall, each time missing by a narrower margin the difficult mark.

  5. It twanged short and sharp like the shrill cry of a swallow.

  6. This afternoon, as Teresa twanged at her banjo strings, she looked oftener than was good for her music at the group of men who were at work in the evergreen cabin.

  7. Again Teresa twanged at her banjo, a little angrily on this occasion, so that the boy's sensitive face twitched.

  8. There were three swans close to the edge of the water, and the bows twanged almost together.

  9. The native ran down to the edge with his bow bent, but Luka's bow twanged and the man fell back with an arrow through his body.

  10. The notes of the two bass strings of the instrument are never altered, but always give the same accompaniment on being twanged together with the violin string on which only the actual melody is picked out.

  11. This instrument is twanged with the fingers and has eighteen killi or keys, twelve with metal strings and six with gut strings.

  12. The guitarist twanged on, and in the audience there were scattered cries of Ole!

  13. They say it twanged the night before our team beat the basket-ball team from Varden Preparatory.

  14. And when Heavy failed to oversleep one morning last half the marble harp must have twanged that time," declared Mary Cox.

  15. Twice or thrice he had sat on the steps of a market cross and twanged his lute that Calote might the better sing her ballads, but if she thanked him, he would scowl.

  16. The bowstrings twanged again, and again six arrows whistled by.

  17. He would endure everything and he would not look at these cruel faces; so he fixed his eyes on the high hill and did not look away when the bowstrings twanged a third time.

  18. And quickly stringing his bow, the Gandiva, he twanged it.

  19. And filling the three worlds with that sound, that foremost of car-warriors took up a large bow and twanged the bow-string powerfully.

  20. Then Karna, drawing his large bow with great force twanged the bow-string.

  21. When first we heard Rossetti sing, We twanged the melancholy lyre, We sang like this, like anything, When first we heard Rossetti sing.

  22. And all our song was faded Spring, And dead delight and dark desire, When first we heard Rossetti sing, We twanged the melancholy lyre.

  23. I never heard of but one man who chanced to strike the "Lost Chord," and his fingers had been wandering over the worn strings for a year or more before they twanged the right combination.

  24. And even Dick didn't escape, for Babe turned his grinning face toward the couch and twanged the strings and sang: "A fellow named Bates is here to-night And his face it is an awful sight!

  25. The other's manner toward him had twanged the chord of animosity that had been between them since the first exchange of glances, and he was as eager as Corrigan for the clash that must now come.

  26. As he spoke he raised his two feet, with the bow-stave upon their soles, and his cord twanged with a deep rich hum which might be heard across the valley.

  27. It chanced that out of one of the bundles there stuck the end of what the clerk saw to be a cittern, so drawing it forth, he tuned it up and twanged a harmony to the merry lilt which the dancers played.

  28. I haven't twanged my ole banjo and held forth with a saengerfest for a coon's age!

  29. All these instruments are twanged by the fingers.

  30. Africa would be guithara), but it has a vaulted back, the body being like half a pear with a long neck; the strings are twanged by means of a quill.

  31. In that second of time Hal Masters' string twanged and his long arrow sped through the arbalister's throat.

  32. He raised his bow as he spoke, and the string twanged with a rich deep musical note.

  33. The bowmen along either side of the Philippa had stood motionless waiting for their orders, but now there was a sharp shout from their leader, and every string twanged together.

  34. The spring in his swivel chair twanged musically as the district leader leaned back to read.

  35. The spring in the chair twanged as Morely came forward, to poke his head at DeVore.

  36. The bowman twanged the string, bending forward eagerly to watch the fate of his arrow.

  37. The vessels glided to the harmony of the twanged strings into the broad canal.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "twanged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.