whanging

I've often thought when I've seen him that the instrument would explode when he was whanging away so brilliantly on it.

Daniel Menaker: Mandolins Daniel Menaker 2011

“The crackling was all from the right, so we turned right, and then it was coming from the right again which used to be behind us, and it was whanging against my gun, and my hand, my right hand had needle holes through it one side and out the other.”

Babies Terence Cannon 2011

I've often thought when I've seen him that the instrument would explode when he was whanging away so brilliantly on it.

Daniel Menaker: Mandolins Daniel Menaker 2011

I tried to twist the ignition and start the engine, but the shooter changed his line of fire and went to work on the front of the truck, punching holes in the radiator, flattening the right front tire all the way to the rim, whanging at least two rounds off the engine block.

The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

And so, with bullets whanging against an iron sheet Ericsen rigged to protect the helm wheel, they drag the boats, nets and men up the San Joaquin toward Merryweather where a crowd of admiring townspeople come aboard and a couple of newspaper men take pictures.

“I, in the course of making my living by turning journalism into literature. . .” 2008

I tried to twist the ignition and start the engine, but the shooter changed his line of fire and went to work on the front of the truck, punching holes in the radiator, flattening the right front tire all the way to the rim, whanging at least two rounds off the engine block.

The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

No trams, no lorries, no generators, no whanging hammers or clopping horses or shouting children.

Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010

I tried to twist the ignition and start the engine, but the shooter changed his line of fire and went to work on the front of the truck, punching holes in the radiator, flattening the right front tire all the way to the rim, whanging at least two rounds off the engine block.

The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010

No trams, no lorries, no generators, no whanging hammers or clopping horses or shouting children.

Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010

I tried to twist the ignition and start the engine, but the shooter changed his line of fire and went to work on the front of the truck, punching holes in the radiator, flattening the right front tire all the way to the rim, whanging at least two rounds off the engine block.

The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010