| The bed springs twanged and the wooden floor boards responded with a creak. |
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| At the same instant, before the boy could act, a hundred other bows twanged from all around the house. |
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| The choking, glugging boiling water twanged against the hollow unplumbed tub and the brass bungle of piping smeared and juddered. |
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| Swirling to one side as the other's blade twanged against the rock wall, each watched closely for an opening in the other's defense. |
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| He still hadn't put his sheets on it, and the mattress twanged under his weight. |
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| Screams echoed out as the branches twanged back, severely impairing the vision of many runners. |
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| They were too late, and bows twanged as arrows whistled through the air. |
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| The oldest gunslinger still in town twanged a hamstring just before this particular high noon, leaving him no more than an outsider's chance of taking part. |
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| At my side a wire twanged, and snapped, and the end of it scraped my face just missing my left eye. |
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| She stubbed her toe and managed to release the guitar from its holding and it twanged on the ground, waking the two very unstable-temperamental parents below. |
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| A few bullets twanged off of the dusty corner of a building a few paces behind her, and she sped up a little, taking another turn, and another, hoping to lose their trail. |
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| The string twanged as the arrow flew, striking the snow dragon in the eye. |
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| She threw the knife into the thick carpet, the point of which stuck and twanged silently as Fearne's mother ran upstairs, screamed and called an ambulance. |
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| Bowstrings twanged and rifles cracked as the volley flew into the army. |
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| Three games into his comeback, he twanged a hamstring and was forced into another spell on the sidelines. |
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| In its most notable and glorious movement, his voice bent and twanged like the sound an old saw makes when you give it a shake. |
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| A transistor radio twanged on a seawall where a Hawaiian family picnicked on the sand. |
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| Johnnie Jackson twanged the Pole's bar with a free-kick but the Campbell-sized captain Guy Branston and his cohorts resisted County's siege before coming forward again. |
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| It is a brutal setback for Wade, who made his international debut in Argentina last summer and would have played ahead of Ashton during the recent internationals had he not twanged a hamstring. |
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| One leg was shorter than the other, and his voice twanged with catarrh. |
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