Example sentences for: twangs

How can you use “twangs” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The man from Andhra Pradesh might come up with the Telugu flavored Twinkulu Twinkulu Littlu Staru , while from Kerala come the deeply resonant Malayalam twangs of Dwingle Dwingle Liddle Sdar .”

  • And, in 1989, John Honey, an English professor and phonetics expert, wrote Does Accent Matter? [rev. XVI,1,10] in which he champions the cause of teaching the Queen's English (RP, or received pronunciation) in order to achieve social and economic equality for those who are passed over in the job market because of unacceptable regional accents, such as the nasal twangs and glottal stops of Cockey, Liverpudlian, and Glaswegian.

  • Certainly there were lots of signs of political and economic instability: Some of the hotels recommended in our Lonely Planet guide had closed in the last year, inflation was literally eating away the rupee by the hour, and Pakistanis, described universally as cheery to the point of being irritating, were cranky and mean--especially when they heard our American twangs.


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