What is "zing"

Usage examples of "zing".

Conceivably, some enchantment in the chant of crystal, some oblique spell zinging off the obliques, something occult in the dark occlusions had laid hands upon his eldritch senses and dulled them, lulled them, culled them, gulled them.

Nails ran second, then Silver, Kapu, Sister, Zit, Zat, Zing, and finally, far behind came Jello.

My leggings and t-shirt felt much more comfortable, and I washed my face in the bathroom sink, sprit zing on some Chanel 22, before going out to join my baby-sitter in the den.

In a moment, the harvesting party had exploded into a full-fledged food fight, fallen oranges zinging past and hitting people, trees, the ground, with a liquid sploosh.

His breath was coming in rasps and his chest was heaving, his punches had lost their zing.

They stood up to retaliate, and met the volley of slingstones zinging up hard on the heels of the javelins.

His outlandish hair, his satanic earring, and his smartass sweatshirt afforded so many opportunities to zing me, that Hobart finally let the kid off with a ninety-day suspended and a two-fifty fine.

Hot steel zinged off the ground, slammed into the closed door, knocked over both bikes and ripped a long gash across the bulbous back of the spider, blood gushing in an emerald torrent.

Manuel and I follow the sound of the shooting, and finally we come upon a large number of characters behind a breastworks made out of sandbags, and they all have rifles in their hands, and are shooting now and then at a big stone building on a high hill about three blocks away, and from this building also comes a lot of firing, and there are occasional bur-ur-ur-ups on both sides that I recognize as machine guns, and bullets are zinging about the sandbags quite some.

This place beyond space and time seemed entirely filled with machinery, with an endless variety of cogwheels and spindles, with belts to drive them, all of them apparently suspended in midair and working away with a zinging, hissing, clanging sound.

Before we took off from Kazakhstan, Assad poured us all cocktails, calmly ignoring the laserbeams zinging on the shell of his car.

She had always thought of the bicycle as a rather benign machine but now these people she saw zinging about might as well have been mounted on HIV-infected Rottweilers for all the fear and anger they contaminated her with.

She stared upward as pleasure zinged through her body, unable to raise her head to see.

We could even hear him yelling at his crew chief to start the goddamn plane as bombs exploded and bullets zinged all around him.

He fired at Duffy again and the bullet zinged off the cab with a musical note.