What is "twanging"

Usage examples of "twanging".

Girls in topheavy T-shirts and sawn-off jeans or else in superfemale parody of indigenous flounce and frill, the matrons also burgeoning in tight angular cords and a flush of freckly renewal, the bronzed brutes twanging their torsoes in the bar and enacting their ideal of modern male grace a moustachioed muscle.

Listening to all that twanging, twanging, twanging, it used to get on my nerves.

I upended the rum bottle over my mouth, finished my packing in the sourly twanging light, marshalled my travel documents and buzzed down for the boy.

And they have more than this, for now my body monitor in intensive care is playing space invaders too, with swarmers, mutants, baiters, bristling zipships and twanging smartbombs.

The little pleasure-launch was fussing out from the shore, twanging its music, crowded with people, flapping its paddles.

Gudrun, in the strange, twanging voice of lonely chagrin that was very puzzling to him.

The English visitors could hear the occasional twanging of a zither, the strumming of a piano, snatches of laughter and shouting and singing, a faint vibration of voices.

I had my wish, it would be to fall so--not, mark you, in any mere skirmish of the Company, but in a stricken field, with the great lion banner waving over us and the red oriflamme in front, amid the shouting of my fellows and the twanging of the strings.

All around him Alleyne could hear the stern, short orders of the master-bowmen, while the air was filled with the keen twanging of the strings and the swish and patter of the shafts.

The men each held an end of a long bamboo pole that they were whipping and twanging up and down, while the girl used it very like a tightrope, and almost as skillfully as Autumn Auburn or Monday Simms, letting it toss her into leaps and flips and somersaults, but always landing again on the bamboo.

A baleful almost-music, that of the tuneless cadences of an untutored orchestra repercussing in an ecstatic agony of echoes against the sounding boards of the mountains, lured us into the village square where we discover them twanging, plucking and abusing with horsehair bows a wide variety of crude stringed instruments.

They charged in among the Khonds and scattered them and the air was filled with shouts and the twangings of bow strings, and the terrible ripping sound of splintering oars as a whole bank was crushed into matchwood.

There was a series of rustlings and elasticated twangings, and then she turned around, holding a bag.

There were sudden, plangent twangings as if giant fingers had plucked at the ribbon somewhere along its thousands of taut kilometres.