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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of whang.

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Examples

  • He cut the dead mate's head off and sneaked ashore in the might, while I whanged away with my rifle as if I were trying to get him.

    THE PRINCESS 2010

  • The bullets whanged and banged against it till it rang like a bull's-eye, but Charley grinned in its shelter, and coolly went on steering.

    Charley's Coup 2010

  • Anything that can run with a double lung shot from a .270 at 50 yards is tougher than whanged leather.

    Whitetail Are Tougher Than You Think 2009

  • Anything that can run with a double lung shot from a .270 at 50 yards is tougher than whanged leather.

    Whitetail Are Tougher Than You Think 2009

  • Why, they was four rounds I was in dreamland all the time ... only I kept on my feet an 'fought, or took the count to eight an' got up, an 'stalled an' covered an 'whanged away.

    CHAPTER XIII 2010

  • The puck whanged off the left post and trickled into my crease.

    The Hanging Tree Bryan Gruley 2010

  • Bullets pinged and whanged, but none of the shots found them.

    Rot & Ruin Jonathan Maberry 2010

  • A few miles farther on, a shell whanged off the front armor of the leading Tiger.

    The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna 2010

  • Bullets whanged and punched the metal and the glass.

    The Black Madonna Davis Bunn 2010

  • A bullet whanged off the roof of the truck and another off the side window.

    The Black Madonna Davis Bunn 2010

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