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Tom Mitchenall, 17, had hooked a large carp and was jostling with the heavy fish when the line snapped sending the slender plastic float "twanging" back at him like an arrow.

FOXNews.com 2010

Joan and Sheldon heard the twanging thrum and saw Koogoo throw out his arms, at the same time dropping his rifle, stumble forward, and sink down on his hands and knees.

Chapter 24 2010

Baluch tribesmen screech into these road stops driving old autos and motorcycles, wearing Arab head scarves, speaking in harsh gutturals, and playing music whose rumbling rhythms, so unlike the introspective twanging ragas of the subcontinent, reverberate with the spirit of Arabia.

Pakistan’s Fatal Shore 2009

Baluch tribesmen screech into these road stops driving old autos and motorcycles, wearing Arab head scarves, speaking in harsh gutturals, and playing music whose rumbling rhythms, so unlike the introspective twanging ragas of the subcontinent, reverberate with the spirit of Arabia.

Pakistan’s Fatal Shore 2009

Baluch tribesmen screech into these road stops driving old autos and motorcycles, wearing Arab head scarves, speaking in harsh gutturals, and playing music whose rumbling rhythms, so unlike the introspective twanging ragas of the subcontinent, reverberate with the spirit of Arabia.

Pakistan’s Fatal Shore 2009

Instantly the entire sphere burst into a mighty whispering, sharp with protest, almost twanging goldenly, if a whisper could possibly be considered to twang, rising higher, sinking deeper, the two extremes of the registry of sound threatening to complete the circle and coalesce into the bull-mouthed thundering he had so often heard beyond the taboo distance.

THE RED ONE 2010

The two elements came together best when the poet (Costa prize-winning Christopher Reid) made you look again – the wine bottle bowing to one glass then whispering in the ear of the other; the laminated menu "twanging like a riot policeman's shield"; the "wooden phallus" of the pepper pot "scattering seed".

Rewind TV: The Apprentice; The Song of Lunch; The Genius of British Art Phil Hogan 2010

The radio was twanging out a country song when she entered.

Western Man Janet Dailey 2011

It sort of works, with Luca Tom Hardy playing a Vauxhall gay club bouncer dropping twanging guitars and harmonicas over some big room beats.

This week's new singles 2011

They are multi-instrumentalists who can switch to ballads and laments, adding in bagpipes, bouzouki, flutes, wailingTurkish horns, blues harp or even a twanging, virtuoso duet on duelling mouth harps.

Muzsikás featuring Márta Sebestyén: Fly Bird, Fly – review 2011