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Exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects)
twang
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twang
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twang
Examples for "
twang
"
1
The air had the cold, sweet
twang
of peppermints in the throat.
2
Even his accent is often tinged with a distinct South African
twang
.
3
His voice had taken on the
twang
of an inner level resident.
4
Here is a rhyme that has in it a distinctly American
twang
:
5
She had the drawl and
twang
and accent of rural New England.
1
The same
nasal
twang
was in her voice, the same snobbish reserve.
2
He became steadier in his gaze; his voice lost some of its
nasal
twang
.
3
He has a
nasal
twang
,
right priestly in its note.
4
Eliphalet girded up his loins, and sharpened his
nasal
twang
to cope with hers.
5
Noseplugs sealed her nostrils, giving her voice a
nasal
twang
.
6
The speech is a stately drawl very different from the
nasal
twang
of Eliphalet's bringing up.
7
Are you, in your
nasal
twang
,
going to have my head chopped off by royal decree?
8
There is always a
nasal
twang
about it, but quite distinct from the nasality of a Yankee.
9
Rodin pronounced these last word with a
nasal
twang
,
and the devout lady bowed her head respectfully.
10
His tones took on a
nasal
twang
.
11
Far off as the voice seemed at first, there was a delicious, home-sickness-provoking,
nasal
twang
to the accents.
12
It was understood to be a description of my conversation; American peculiarities,
nasal
twang
,
Yankee notions, stars and stripes.
13
He was proud of his
nasal
twang
and his want of grammar, and all amenities and decencies of speech.
14
With a subtle
nasal
twang
15
The fear of
nasal
twang
and failure to distinguish between it and true nasal resonance has been the stumbling block.
16
Her English was accented, neither the flat,
nasal
twang
of the Midwest, nor the vowel-bloating drawl of the Southeastern seaboard.
nasal
twang
nasal