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noun baŋbæŋ 1A sudden loud, sharp noise. the door slammed with a bang Example sentencesExamples - A loud bang sounded, almost like a crack of thunder, but there was no pain, only blackness.
- People should also be aware that the elderly can be very frightened by loud bangs and also animals.
- The station was flooded with complaints reporting of loud bangs from Sunset Beach to Tarcoola Beach.
- Pets are on tranquillisers and I have seen some horrible images of damage done to other animals frightened by loud bangs.
- Hazel Stewart, 50, a teacher in the village, said locals were woken yesterday morning by a loud bang as the car smashed into the pub.
- Whether the display is at 2pm or 2am is immaterial to animals, most of whom are terrorised by the sudden and loud bangs.
- Police were called to the scene after a neighbour reported hearing a loud bang.
- A loud bang occurred when he slammed onto the hard, solid ground on his back.
- All of a sudden, a loud bang erupted from behind him followed by a shriek of pain.
- The driver reported hearing a loud bang near the front of the vehicle and stopped to investigate, said Ernst.
- Not so long ago, such loud, booming bangs would have sent shivers down the spines of many.
- A loud bang accompanied with boisterous laughter startled her out from her thoughts and she groaned to herself.
- So if you hear loud crashes and bangs while walking past the Grammar, don't worry, it's only a couple of robots having a fight.
- With a loud bang, she slammed into the wall at the bottom of the stairway.
- Evacuating the offices, they heard loud bangs and crashing noises in the loft above their office and raised the alarm.
- A cabin crew member also later reported hearing a loud bang from the ceiling of the aircraft just before the vibrations began.
- Should we be entertaining ourselves with loud bangs and explosions?
- The late-nights thuds and bangs have made it loud and clear - it's firework time again.
- Locals reported hearing two loud bangs before the main explosion.
Synonyms sharp noise, crack, boom, clang, peal, clap, pop, snap, knock, tap, slam, bump, thud, thump, clunk, clonk, clash, crash, smash, smack stamp, stomp, clump, clomp report, explosion, detonation, shot informal wham, whump - 1.1 A sharp blow causing a sudden, loud noise.
I went to answer a bang on the front door Example sentencesExamples - His deep laugh mingled with the splashing of the water as a bang on the wall indicated Paul Hutchinson's annoyance.
- ‘My computer's broken,’ James said, rapping his knuckles on the machine and issuing a dull bang.
- There was no vehicle parked outside, there was no bang on the door and no card through the letter box.
- He turned and punched the nearest wall with a resounding bang.
- Neighbours said they were woken by loud bangs and crashes.
- The house did not suffer any structural damage but when the lightning hit the house there was an enormous bang, the fuses blew and the power went.
- Then his team romped around Cambridge in a pair of Humvees to tune the system so that it wasn't fooled by normal urban bangs and jolts.
- All of this would have taken a few seconds when suddenly there was a bang and the car jolted.
- Suddenly a bang on the door was heard; Emilee and Lilly shot their glances onto the door, but it was only a bat.
- Just as we began playing there was a loud bang on the front door.
- A large bang upon the large double doors nearly took Alex out of his train of thought.
- Many of the wrecks around our coasts are either mine or torpedo victims, and either way there is a colossal bang, the ship gets a big chunk blown out of it and the rest lands in a heap nearby.
- Cushioned to protect your computer from bangs and bruises, the bags have reinforced straps and expandable openings.
- Instead he lied and told them that he had heard a bang on the floor, and it was not until many hours after the accident that he told police the truth.
- More instructive was watching how quickly the experienced NCOs jumped and ran at any bangs from the drive bells.
- When it came within a metre of the canoe, Henri gave it a hard bang on the snout with his paddle.
- At exactly 1pm, when the ship was about a mile off Beadnell Point, there was a small bang, followed by a colossal explosion which blew off the bow.
- 1.2 A sudden painful blow.
Example sentencesExamples - I took a slight bang on the elbow, but the shoulder is absolutely fine - there was no reaction.
- Then Chris got a bang on the head and said he would feel better if I kept on kicking anyway.
- John Hayden was hurt and Thomas Walsh got a bang on the cheekbone, which looks like a fracture.
- But, despite losing their playmaker, Mark Toohey, after only three minutes of the game with a bang on the head, the Bulldogs made their Super League opponents fight all the way.
- But I never realised he was, well, you know, I just thought he'd had a bang on the head.
- The wife was shutting the garage door tonight and I didn't get out of the way quick enough, so I got a bang on the head.
- He took a bang on his head as he landed and someone must have told him he was Lev Yashin as the keeper got better.
- Defender Matt Hocking is also not expected to travel to Keele after taking a bang on the head just minutes into last night's second half.
- My parents were actually worried about me playing rugby because of the old bang on the head.
- The wing-back suffered a bang on the hip in training and while he would probably have been fit to face his former club he now has more time to recover.
- She was shunted from the rear on her way to the flag and had a nasty bang into the bank just before the finish line.
- Young Andrew Wilson, until a bang on the head necessitated his withdrawal, again played very well.
- She said Mr Cawthraw had been perfectly healthy until he had a bang on his head at work last November and passed out.
- His partner Agustin Pichot also took a bang on the head but it will hardly be revealed that he has concussion.
- Whether it was because of the blow or the resulting bang against the column, Suzanne didn't know.
- Rugby is the all-time leader in biffs and bangs and broken bones, but you don't often die.
Synonyms blow, hit, punch, knock, thump, rap, bump, thwack, smack, crack, slap, welt, cuff, box informal bash, whack, clobber, clout, clip, wallop, belt, tan, biff, bop, sock, lam, whomp British informal slosh North American informal boff, bust, slug, whale Australian/New Zealand informal dong dated buffet
2bangsNorth American A fringe of hair cut straight across the forehead. she brushed back her wispy bangs Example sentencesExamples - Her striking sapphire eyes looked violet, framed by her straight bangs and perfectly arched eyebrows.
- She had blond hair with bangs falling into her baby blue eyes.
- After brushing her hair and letting her bangs fall over her forehead, Jewel went into the kitchen of her apartment.
- His jet-black hair was slightly longer than most guys kept their hair; his bangs fell forward in spikes at his forehead.
- This face had chocolate brown hair with bangs almost in his dark blue eyes, which were framed with large round glasses.
- A person with brown hair and long bangs was the only one who stopped his track and turned around.
- She had a dark and straight hair, with bangs falling over her purple eyes.
- I came up again to float on my back, short hair fanning around me, bangs plastered to my forehead.
- One day she would have blonde straight long hair and bangs and blue eyes, the next black curly hair and brown eyes.
- A lecherous smile played on his lips and his hair was set loose, dark bangs falling over his forehead.
- A twelve-year-old boy with dark hair and long bangs hung around the wood-burning stove.
- Her usual curly hair was pulled up in a French roll with bangs falling over the forehead.
- I stared into his deep blue eyes, a few bangs of chestnut hair tumbled down his forehead.
- The mage hid his face with the bangs of his midnight hair.
- In the month and a half since they stopped speaking, the vice president had cut his hair, shaggy with bangs and he looked more like a boy.
- Madison had silky black hair, half up and with bangs to cover her forehead.
- A cold sweat moistened his red hair and his bangs were plastered to his forehead.
- Her black hair had crooked bangs as if she'd cut it herself.
- The long bangs of her dark hair fell in front of her face.
- She had drawn a girl with long bangs and her hair pulled back in a ponytail.
3vulgar slang An act of sexual intercourse. 4North American Computing
The character ‘!’.
verb baŋbæŋ [with object]1Strike or put down (something) forcefully and noisily. he began to bang the table with his fist Sarah banged the phone down no object someone was banging on the door Example sentencesExamples - The mess table shook as Seahorse banged his forehead on it.
- She began banging things around as she cooked the fish, and in the process of being spiteful and noisy, splashed herself with hot grease.
- Chris walked lightly to my closet doorway and began banging his head on the frame lightly.
- He looked around quickly and desperately began banging his head against the nearest wall.
- From the very first scene, when those little orphan girls begin banging their buckets on the ground in unison singing It's a Hard Knock Life, they had me.
- I put my head on the table and began to rhythmically bang it.
- The neighbors downstairs banged on the ceiling and so then I began banging my head against the wall.
- When he gets to me, he removes the person sitting opposite, flips down a tiny wall table, and bangs his elbow on it, hand open.
- The fork shivered angrily and then slid across the table, banging Sven's glass.
- The other two burst out laughing, banging the table top with their paws.
- She turned around and began banging her forehead against the wall.
- I began to bang my head on the table in front of me.
- I begin banging my head against the table top, rattling the plates and cutlery.
- He promptly stood in front of it and began banging his head upon the curved surface.
- He could hear Chela talking in the other room and began loudly banging the book on the table beside the laptop.
- He returned, and began to noisily bang his spoon on the table to distract Al-Allaf, who ignored him and continued to read out loud.
- And in the front, a group of students are having a rap contest as they make their beats by banging on the table.
- At this point I began banging my head on the table, so I turned the TV off.
- Jas got bored and began banging his heels against the chair legs.
- Simon started cracking up again, banging his hand dramatically on the table as he held his stomach.
Synonyms hit, strike, beat, thump, hammer, knock, rap, pound, thud, punch, bump, thwack, smack, crack, slap, slam, welt, cuff, pummel, buffet informal bash, whack, clobber, clout, clip, wallop, belt, tan, biff, bop, sock, lam, whomp British informal slosh North American informal boff, bust, slug, whale Australian/New Zealand informal dong - 1.1with object and adverbial Cause (something) to strike something else unexpectedly and sharply.
I banged my head on the low beams no object she banged into some shelves in the darkness Example sentencesExamples - They were banging into elbows and not apologizing or anything.
- Crystal pleaded as the cat darted down the alleyway banging into trash cans and making all kinds of noise as it went.
- He holds a mic to his lips to emit a noise that is a cross between a mosquito dazedly banging into a porch light and a junior high video class sound effect of a crashing UFO.
- And people just don't stop: everywhere you go they are banging into you.
- One man nearly crashed his car and another banged into a lamppost.
- I bolted upright and banged my head on the shelf in the closet.
- On a regular basis, she would slam him into a wall or table, often banging his head into the wall.
- Her head came up so quickly that she banged it on the shelf above her.
- Standing up quickly, she banged her head against the top shelf in the cupboard and cursed.
- As she raised her free hand, Ian, sensing a slap, flinched away and banged his head hard into the corner of a shelf.
- He tried to stand up and banged his head rather painfully on a shelf sticking out of the wall.
- Then there was the personal injury claim from a man who jumped from his bed when he heard his car being hit and banged his head on a shelf.
- Her head banged sharply against the underside of the desk.
- Things in the room were starting to crash and bang into each other, making a mighty ruckus.
- The worst part of that crash was likely the people banging into each other.
- The next thing I know I have banged into the ref and he has gone down.
- I go to Hreod Parkway normally but I was worried that people might bang into my back.
- You know that red mist thing where you find yourself punching some inoffensive article of furniture for no better reason than that you have just banged into it?
- I assumed […] that the noise we heard was my car banging into one of the pillars of the house.
- He seemed to return her bitterness as he sharply walked past, banging into my shoulder on his way.
- 1.2with object and adverbial of direction (of a sports player) hit (a ball or a shot) forcefully and successfully.
he banged home four penalties in the opening twenty minutes Example sentencesExamples - Bagwell banged a career-high 47 homers that season, knocked in 132 runs and hit .310.
- They can try like crazy to bang the ball inside and have the guards try to drive through traffic, but it's of little use.
- When you started your career as a first class cricketer in India, you were a lively fast medium bowler who loved banging the ball in short.
- Addingham were trying to spread play out wide but each time they lost possession, the ball was banged straight back down route one style.
- You either bang the hell out of the ball or you stand back and absorb it.
- So he started the second half intent on spraying line drives all over the park and relying on his speed by banging balls into the ground.
- If his team has banged in five, he's the most ecstatic fan on the park and doesn't mind who knows it.
- Extra time loomed after Kevin Sinfield banged over a late penalty but Warriors had one last throw of the dice and Tickle's timely one-pointer was enough.
- It was clear from the moment he went on-loan to Bournemouth as a West Ham player, and banged in all those goals on the bounce, that this was a special talent.
- McBride singled in a run in the second, banging a ball off the glove of diving third baseman Ken Boyer to score Leon Wagner.
- Fast bowlers bang the ball in but nothing hits the splice of the bat, there are no edges, shoulders drop and there is an air of lethargy and helplessness in the movement of fielders.
- By comparison, the three Eagles tries came off Bulldog mistakes while Eagles flyhalf Hugo van As banged over four penalties and a conversion.
- I thought I would turn and bang the ball because I had seen the keeper move a little bit towards the far post and leave a small gap at his near post.
- I was going on twenty-one years of age and just banging the balls around trying to cut in hard shots.
- One after another they banged the ball out of the infield, line-drives and whizzing grounders and almost all of them got on base.
- And, in his first major league at-bat, he banged a single off veteran right-hander Hank Borowy.
- The ball spun for the Ecuadorean and he banged in a fierce shot which the goalkeeper could only palm away.
- Pock were unable to take advantage of their numerical superiority until Mitchell banged over a 40 yard penalty.
- He's just banged in ten goals from midfield and has come good at the right time.
- He ran superbly from full-back and banged over seven goals as Leigh secured their place against Salford in the Arriva Trains Cup final.
- 1.3no object Make a sudden loud noise, typically repeatedly.
the shutter was banging in the wind Example sentencesExamples - Her boots banged louder and harder and with each step she screamed to herself the words she had been thinking for four days but never uttered.
- He floored it and we sped off with the engine roaring, banging and clattering like a class of five year olds in the school music room.
- I heard shutters banging and people wailing and babies crying and dog barking.
- It rang like a huge gong banging relentlessly into the silence.
- However the wind outside was making it bang too much so I locked it, and later when the cat wanted to go outside he meowed for me to open it for him.
- Noise banged through the high-ceilinged, uncarpeted room, matching the din inside her skull.
- A window lay open, revealing a steel-grey sky beyond the wooden shutters, banging as the wind whistled furiously outside.
- Two loud, sharp knocks banged at the black doors guarding the entrance to the Calestia Dela.
- The family was asleep while the storm crashed and banged - Gnat decided she wouldn't sleep today.
- But those who make a living from the sea know that tides don't merely ebb and flow, they crash and bang.
- The boxes shook, banged, and shuddered, yet they stayed closed.
- People were throwing up on the lawn as loud music banged through the walls.
Synonyms explode, crack, go off with a bang, detonate, burst, blow up - 1.4 (with reference to something such as a door) open or close noisily.
with object and complement he banged the kitchen door shut behind him Example sentencesExamples - She banged open the door of her locker, and put on her armour with a speed born of practice.
- When the door had banged open so suddenly, she had been startled enough to let out a yelp loud enough for anyone in the house to hear.
- The front door banged open and soon, Joel was at my side.
- He got about two steps towards the doors before they banged open and the room was blinded with light.
- Suddenly the doors banged open and I looked up to see three dark men.
- We suffered a similar situation for six years during which time we had to put up with loud music, doors banging at all hours and verbal abuse.
- She banged open the door to find them all huddled together in a large group, lounging on the floor, obviously discussing something.
- Beneath him, heavy footsteps raced from room to room, and doors banged open.
- She then went straight to Lily's house and banged open the door.
- They also don't stay up all night playing rather loud music, and banging all the house doors.
- But Karen was already gone, laughter trailing behind her, webbing the screen door as it banged open and shut.
- She said she heard doors banging and loud music on the night of the attack.
- Another hour later, the screen door banged open with a small clatter.
- Then the back door had banged open and Sonny had followed the college boy out to his car, quick long strides crunching over gravel.
- The kitchen door banged open behind us and voice drifted out
- He was in such a rush to get in and out of the sight of passers by that he banged open the door with a resounding crash.
- Iroka awoke with a start as the front door banged open and a figure stumbled in.
- The car door closest to Tyler banged open and a tall girl of 17 stepped out from it.
- Just then the front door banged open and I jumped as a man ran into the room.
- She heard the whoosh of a flushing toilet, and one of the stall doors banged open to reveal a girl with bronze skin and curly dark hair.
Synonyms go bang, crash, smash, thud - 1.5no object, with adverbial of direction (of a person) move around or do something noisily.
she was banging around the kitchen Example sentencesExamples - He started banging around in the kitchen, then he picked up his keys and went storming out.
- But told the jury the noise problems had been real with loud music being played at night, doors being slammed and people banging around.
- As I walk downstairs, I can hear the sound of my mother banging around in the kitchen, muffled by something.
- It's like a whirlwind version of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, but with more characters banging about and fewer insights into them.
- Ian heard Linda banging around in the bedroom, and walked to the doorway.
- The three women banged and clattered down the stairs and out the door.
- I could hear Kathy banging around in the house and a moment later she came back into the lounge where I was standing, waiting.
- I could hear Mom banging around downstairs, probably making something else.
- Timur and Anikei banged out of the house as the narrative was winding down.
- I use the dishes, banging around, making lots of noise.
2North American Cut (hair) in a fringe. 3vulgar slang (typically used of a man) have sexual intercourse with.
adverb baŋbæŋ British informal 1Exactly. the train arrived bang on time Example sentencesExamples - Slap bang in the heart of Sligo Town, McGarrigles may not be here at the end of 2003, but they are still alive and kicking.
- Even so, I woke up after only 45 minutes of the alarm going off and made it to my desk bang on 10.
- It's a 15-room guesthouse, bang on the waterfront and at the heart of all local goings-on.
- We are also bang opposite the London Eye, and very close, but I forgot to take pictures of that.
- Slap bang in the middle of the week commencing September 17, it's the Top Gear charity karting evening.
- And, bang on cue, Barry strode on to stage dripping blood, sat down at the drums and started to play.
- Slap bang in the centre of Vietnam is Hoi An, a charismatic old port bearing all the architectural hallmarks of its commercial heritage.
- Diva may be an overused word, but it's bang on the button here.
- The holy grail for any magazine is hitting your target market bang on the nail.
- It's not just that they think Europe is bang next door to Afghanistan.
- His satisfaction would have been boosted by the fact that his loud celebrations were taking place bang next door to Rotherham's M&S store.
- The bus leaves bang on time, and we roll along the freeways as the sun rises and adds a flush to the Rockies on our right.
- While the boys struggled, the girls from Rosary Convent were bang on the target.
- Not only is it bang next door to Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in Britain, but it also boasts the country's highest ski run, at 4000 feet.
- We were collected at the college bang on 11.00 am and had a great drive up through the Lakes.
- Slap bang in the middle of the box was a huge walnut.
- One of the nuclear trains from our local power plant trundled past at quarter past eight, bang on time.
Synonyms precisely, exactly, right, directly, immediately, squarely, just, dead promptly, prompt, dead on, on the stroke of …, on the dot of … sharp, on the dot informal spot on, smack, slap, slap bang, plumb North American informal on the button, on the nose, smack dab, spang - 1.1 Completely.
bring your wardrobe bang up to date Example sentencesExamples - She's bang up to now without kowtowing to fashion, and catches the zeitgeist in a completely individual way.
- The drop in revenues between the fourth quarter and the first quarter of this year is bang in line with the trend of the past three years.
- The organisation was updated bang 21st century.
- The aesthetic of the series is bang up-to-date, ultramodern stuff.
- It also means the curriculum is bang up-to-date, with Merlin crews who took part in the conflict in Iraq feeding their observations and experiences back to the squadron.
- These are perhaps most obvious as we leave the prison, and walk past the site of what will become a bang up-to-date mother and baby facility, due to open next year.
- We've focused on the rest, which we hope has some value: observations on Sun's integrator strategy and company history that are bang up to date.
- I have to make sure that my material is bang up-to-date, which means scouring the web to check for new developments.
- Presented by Ian Wright, Spy TV brings the hidden-camera format bang up-to-date.
- Software is the bang up-to-date Office XP Small Business Edition and it's backed up by a one-year, collect-and-return warranty.
- Romeo and Juliet's gear conveyed a bang up-to-the-minute approach to love-making while, in truth, it was a bit starchy.
- House of Fraser had a bang up-to-date Phillips TV at £799.99, half the usual price.
- An example of a bang in the middle of town and bang up-to-date venue is The Hub, in Edinburgh.
Synonyms completely, absolutely, totally, entirely, wholly, fully, thoroughly, utterly, quite, altogether, one hundred per cent, downright, unqualifiedly, in all respects, unconditionally, perfectly, unrestrictedly, undisputedly, to the maximum extent informal clean, plumb, dead
exclamationbaŋbæŋ 1Used to convey the sound of a sudden loud noise. Example sentencesExamples - Damn, 57 years loaded with ammo that was 61 years old and it went bang every time.
- Of course we have to do it - so we did - and the predictable result was the gun went bang every time.
- It would be let loose from the top of the hill and we would all line up and let fire with our double barrels: bang!
- A few seconds passed, a few more - then, just as I took them away, bang!
- I put all my strength into hitting this wooden shield, and it was - bang!
- I was casting out my spinner and next thing, bang!
- One night I started twisting the dial, hoping that something would happen, and then - bang!
- I was staring mesmerized at the erratic pfft coming from the brown-paper cylinder when - bang!
- On November 5, we watched fireworks, but those we hear now are nothing like I remember; they are just bang, bang, bang!
2Used to convey the suddenness of an action. the minute something becomes obsolete, bang, it's gone Example sentencesExamples - And it just got progressively more and more and more, just keeping on adding to our jobs… and then one morning… bang!
- You want a piece of music - bang, you can download it.
- Just when you thought it was safe to never watch a Cavs game again, bang!
- Then, just as we are immersed in the realism we've conjured for ourselves, bang!
- You just need to know a good joke, or have the comical sense to see absurdity in daily life and… bang!
- There was no consultation with New Zealand First, but through an agreement with United Future and the Greens - bang!
- Then, as I inched closer, it locked on - bang, got it!
- Just when you think that childhood diseases were nothing more than a fuzzy memory - bang, you develop shingles.
- The judge is on the marae, he does something that someone says is contrary to tikanga Maori, and, bang, the judge is up on a complaint.
- Willow and Tara reunite, have great sex and, bang, Tara's dead.
- It happens once, twice, three times and you get so fed up you argue and, bang, you are arrested and it's a criminal record.
- So I started up Windows Media Player and, bang, the virus warnings started again, each time telling me the darn thing had been deleted.
- And one particular day when I was particularly tired, she was talking, and my eyes closed, and the next thing was, bang!
- I mean, he had me all built up there for awhile and then, bang!
- Get blind drunk, snog, repeat the next week, repeat the next week, bang!
- All I'd have to do is read, memorize lines and, bang, people would love me.
- Even enjoying someone's company becomes loaded with expectation and social convention, fears that this will lead to that, and then, bang!
- Then, all of a sudden, bang, they're going as well.
- Sugar triggers the release of feel-good hormones into your brain - and, bang, you're fixed.
- Here we are, smoothly bringing the tail down with the fluke adjusted to just the right angle of attack, when - bang!
Synonyms suddenly, abruptly, immediately, instantaneously, instantly, in an instant, straight away, all of a sudden, at once, all at once, promptly, in a trice, swiftly unexpectedly, without warning, without notice, on the spur of the moment informal straight off, out of the blue, in a flash, like a shot, before you can say Jack Robinson, before you can say knife, in two shakes (of a lamb's tail)
Phrases bang for one's (or the) buck informal Value for money. classy sports cars with huge bang for your buck Example sentencesExamples - A lot of companies can get a lot of bang for their buck out of the investment.
- However, according to Fisher, ‘You may spend more money but you'll get more bang for your buck.’
- One of the reasons is because you get a lot of bang for your buck with their products.
- While many tech execs are moping, corporations get a lot more bang for their buck.
- Given that films at the Bloomsbury Theatre only cost £2.50, I can certainly say I got a lot of bang for my buck.
- Each of these featurettes lasts around a half-hour, so you know you're getting a lot of film bang for your buck.
- Cruises still offer a lot of bang for your buck, and with specials as low as $300 or $400 per person, many travelers can save with a sea vacation.
- There's a lot of bang for your buck with this disc.
- To me, short films are the best value and most bang for your buck.
- This will spare you the cost of resizing the opening, and still give you a lot of bang for your buck.
- Season Four certainly didn't lack for drama or surprise, and Fox really delivers a lot of bang for your buck with the extras this time around.
- Meanwhile, we shouldn't be too harsh on our governments, which want to spend the taxpayers' money to, in this case, ensure less bang for their buck.
- Fortunately, our customers will benefit from getting a lot of bang for their buck when they upgrade.
- Granted, this only covers four days, but I think I got a lot of movie bang for my buck.
- Thanks to cutthroat competition and continued innovation in the tech industry, corporate buyers are finding that they can get more bang for their buck when they do decide to put their money to work.
- They spend more money, they're getting less bang for their buck and this is an opportunity for them to associate with the show on many levels.
- Your entire body is involved in each move, so you're getting a lot more bang for your buck.
- So they might as well try to get a lot of bang for their buck and sell it while they can.
- But with this much firepower, you expect a lot more bang for your buck.
- Yeah, so you don't actually get a lot of bang for your buck as far as jokes out of the time we spend together.
Used to express the sudden collapse of a plan or hope. my first thought when I heard the news was ‘Bang goes my knighthood!’ Example sentencesExamples - Then there is the added worry that perhaps the property bubble could go pop and bang goes the potential capital gain and your expected return on investment.
- The moment the Herald becomes the organ for the Bishop or the Archbishop, bang goes journalistic objectivity.
- If you don't plaster your walls you are saving on cement and thereby on energy, but if at the same time you end up using a lot of timber, bang goes eco-friendliness, points out Mahesh.
- Well, bang goes any chance of making your protest, guys.
- So bang goes my dream of being sophisticated again.
- So bang goes the Rotary Club outing to Gaza City.
- Probably not and bang goes another $8 or $9 million at our hard-pressed national broadcaster.
- Actually, when people arrive late I usually think they are terribly rude, so bang goes my theory…!
- Policies can be changed, perhaps a new council, another roundabout for a new access road and bang goes the Hilperton Gap.
- Let's also not forget the one-man freeware/shareware operation - they might not be able to afford a download.com listing so bang goes one of the main distribution avenues for them.
- SO bang goes our dreams of reaching the FA Cup final for another season.
- Even the other new girl comes from another pregnancy yoga class, so bang goes my hopes of safety in numbers.
- But the localisers want us all to retreat behind borders - so bang goes the international transfer of assets which is so desperately needed.
- All postings demonstrate a level of literacy far higher than that in the general population, so bang goes another big chunk of the possible readership.
- And I will have to buy a new one: bang goes the budget.
- I think what he meant that if a track worker gets himself killed bang goes the job and bang goes the cash.
- But I guess I will just have to accept that if he's just going to be there for a day, he won't be there for a night, so bang goes Gerry's plan for the Grand Seduction.
the programme is bang on about the fashion world Example sentencesExamples - It is quite a forgiving rod that lets you off when your timing isn't bang on.
- But the whole foxhunting/inner city poverty thing is pretty much bang on.
- He was bang on, too, in his observations about the entrepreneurial nature of Maori.
- We did read the URL that you supplied, and intuitively we knew that it was true and bang on when we read it.
- The mixture is fairly gelatinous in texture, but the calibration of sweet and sour elements is bang on.
- We even got to point at David Blaine and laugh, so it was bang on, really.
- The vocals were bang on, and the beat had people dancing to the bizarre electro-melody.
- Once again the budget carrier's marketing department had got it bang on.
- It looks beautiful; what Roth says about attention to detail is bang on.
- When both coaches get their schemes bang on, then you look to an individual to come up with a piece of magic that nobody can plan against.
- While some fans were distracted as police and stewards quickly dealt with it, City showed their concentration level was bang on.
- With no fresh injury problems to report, Bolton should be bang on for victory at the weekend.
- Having grown up in the '70s, I can cite a couple of films that capture the period bang on.
- On some nights, it'll just be bang on, and all these people will come out.
Synonyms correct, precise, exact, right, errorless, error-free, without error, faultless, perfect, valid, specific, detailed, minute, explicit, clear-cut, word for word, unambiguous, meticulous, authoritative, reliable, canonical
informal Derive excitement or pleasure from. some people get a bang out of reading that stuff Example sentencesExamples - If The Who weren't genuinely getting a bang out of this, they did a good job of fooling the crowd in Glen Falls.
- It's way too silly for words, but if your children are familiar with the Peanuts strip, they might get a bang out of this.
- Unlike me, Fat Mikey simply did not get a bang out of crocheting afghans or listening to National Public Radio.
- If you're fascinated by factoids you might get a bang out of the following information.
- Students will get a bang out of the ending of this demo.
- If I had seen it last year, or even a few months ago, I surely would have got a bang out of it.
- The Northerners are fanatics who'll get a bang out of dying for their cause and leader.
- Lots of youngsters get a bang out of watching the puppy snarf up bits of food thrown on the floor, so Misha should be locked away while the little ones eat.
- If someone gets a bang out of seeing the Stooges in color, I say let 'em enjoy themselves.
- Only a private boat operator with no one to please but himself can fish with say, lures that he makes and gets a bang out of catching fish on, even though there may be other lures that catch better.
- Back in the Meredith household, Molly gets a bang out of cruising the house.
- So, is it possible that a woodchuck might expand its horizons, meet with a richer fate, and get a bang out of a ride in the opposite direction?
- I especially got a bang out of the one entitled ‘Doctor Barnhelm perfects his machine for restoring animation’ because of the crazy gadgetry in the background.
- Aunt Pinkey was enough like her nephew to understand and even get a bang out of the ridiculousness of his momentary rage.
- Innovate E-Commerce gets a bang out of the immediate publicity the awards programs generate.
- He has the fun of manipulating the bug to coax the fish to it, then he gets a bang out of the strike, right there in plain view, and then the excitement of fighting the fish near the surface.
- Sylvia Fisher gets a bang out of approaching people in the international tent at the AirVenture grounds and speaking to them in their native languages.
- Rufus, obviously getting a bang out of his new found ‘status’, took the opportunity to vent.
- Kenny got a bang out of all this and asked them if he could take their picture and one guy immediately held up his hand - No.
- There is a segment of the market that gets a bang out of buying those things.
the remark brought me down to earth with a bang Example sentencesExamples - Next up was Arsenal and we were brought back down to earth with a bang and a 2-1 defeat.
- He was dumped like hot potato after his first film flopped but he came with a bang with ‘Chandni Bar’ and established himself with ‘Satta’.
- I will always remember the 1990s as the decade in which the mythologicals came down to earth with a bang.
- We have paid the penalty for not being prepared and we have been brought down to earth with a bang.
- Bypassing Byzantine state restrictions would open up competition with a bang… and most certainly lead to dramatic reductions in insurance costs.
- It's back down to Earth with a bang for the Performance Workshop's latest production, however.
- ‘We've come right back down to earth with a bang,’ he said.
- After last week's great win over Camlough Rovers, Bessbrook United were brought down to earth with a bang when Kilkeel Athletic held them to a 3-3 draw.
- And who knows, if we have another extended bout of irrational exuberance, how high the shares might climb before coming back to earth with a bang?
- However, he failed to impress Bobby Williamson sufficiently, returning to earth with a bang.
- He certainly brought Frenchman Sebastien Grosjean down to earth with a bang in the semi-finals.
- Fifty five years is a long time to wait for a repeat and both men are confident that this mighty English team can be brought down to earth with a bang on Sunday.
- Ms Del Duca left with a bang, accusing council of ‘staff problems’ and ‘citizens still not getting the service’.
- An exuberant Mozilla Foundation has been brought back down to earth with a bang by the world's internet organisations.
- RI's title rivals, Malton and Norton, fell to earth with a bang following the euphoria they enjoyed after their Tetley's Bitter Vase semi-final win last week.
- Weybridge golfer Paul Casey, ranked 29th in the world, came down to earth with a bang in the Open last week when he failed to make the cut for the final two rounds.
- In a season when British Athletics crashed back to earth with a bang after the successes of Sydney, she was one of the few to illuminate a disappointing year.
- Now, that bought me back down to earth with a bang.
- Luckily, London has a canny knack of bringing you back down to earth with a bang and ensuring you don't get unbearably maudlin - take, for instance, yesterday's weepy moment.
2Successfully or impressively. the occasion went with a bang Example sentencesExamples - With a whole slew of new crew alliances, nights, guest DJs, clubs and parties to talk about, Montreal has started the year with a bang, so let's cut to the chase and get down to the nitty-gritty.
- But after two years of disappointing cancellations, due to the foot and mouth outbreak and access problems, organisers wanted to attract as many people as possible to make it go with a bang.
- A huge group of audience members were invited on the stage to ‘get down’ while the ladies went out with a bang in the final show of their very first headlining tour.
- The concept is so original and it started with a bang, the audience being welcomed to the occasion one by one with some amusing improvisation.
- Since beginning their season with a bang and four successive wins, the Minstermen have seen their form and fortune dip, rise and dip again.
- Local groups Detox and Catch 22 will get the night's entertainment off with a bang at approximately 8.30 pm for what should prove a highly entertaining night.
- That will set us up nicely for next year and we can start next season with a bang.
- The 2004/2005 pheasant shoot will begin with a bang.
- Linda Jones, the university's enterprise director, said: ‘We're sorry to see the old building go but at least we can make sure that it departs with a bang.’
- Nick Warren, owner of Big Nick's Karaoke, waived his normal £200 fee to ensure the party went with a bang.
- The fundraising evening held in aid of the Southern Area Hospice Services turned out to be a brilliant success and proceeded to start the annual charity efforts with a bang.
- The 2004 Chelmsford Spectacular started and finished with a bang, with chart toppers The Sugababes headlining the opening night of the annual event.
- It sure opens with a bang: Detroit Rock City, the boys clomping around the stage to that ageless opening riff, the orchestra blasting horns and sawing fiddles like enraged monkeys.
- Tony Sullivan made sure Lancashire Day went with a bang in the county capital with a late, late FA Trophy winner against Bromsgrove.
- If we go out we are determined to go out with a bang.
- We are coming back with a bang and I know everyone will really like our new songs’.
- After starting the season with a bang and matching the club's record start, Saturday's dismissal of Richard Hope saw City equal another record, this time for the number of red cards in a campaign.
- Pyrotechnic specialists Pa-Boom will round off the celebrations with a bang by providing a spectacular display of sound and smoke.
- I even thought 2003 had come in with a bang when a smooch on New Year's Eve progressed to a steamy taxi ride back to my folks' house, who heard nothing of our hanky-pankying.
- Their July wedding at St Barnabas's Church went with a bang, despite suffering a few rather unusual hitches.
- Four hundred years after the Gunpowder Plot, Mr Fawkes' election night hardly went with a bang.
- In his last post of our week-long debate on the supposed ‘Constitution in Exile’ movement, Cass Sunstein goes out with a bang.
- A trip to the Isle Of Wight went with a bang - literally - for dozens of pensioners.
- ‘The Magic of Chemistry’ performance led by Malcolm Armstrong was put on for year seven and eight pupils at Castle View School and literally went with a bang.
- It was Motherless Brooklyn, Lethem's fifth novel in as many years, that finally landed him back in the old neighborhood, with a bang that woke the literary world.
- A3, as the album is otherwise known, has hit the stands with a bang after packaging it with ‘catchy’ music and endorsement by the superstar, says the company.
- Their promise to make good on leaving the NAIA with a bang hinges upon success in these games.
- In October, Miller kicked off the current season with a bang, nailing a win in the giant slalom at Sölden, Austria, by more than a second - a huge margin.
- Fence has launched a book series, and done it with a bang - two forceful choices that come out of different worlds in different tones and at different speeds.
- To begin with a bang: Members are informed that the recording of the much-awaited project - Thiruvasakam in Symphony - in Hungary was over.
- The final of the Buster Under-19 basketball championship ended this year's Inter-Secondary School Sports program with a bang!
- The political year 2003/2004 ended with a bang.
- Earlier, the Boxing Day card started with a bang as McCoy and Doumen treated spectators to an epic tussle.
- And the only thing you can do, if you leave ‘American Idol,’ is go out with a bang, and I think that he definitely, definitely did that.
- ‘Pinafore’ proved that Ballina is back with a bang on the light operatic scene and that its exile has in no way resulted in a general diminution of talent.
- It probably means a little bit more to Ian than a normal game because he wants to start with a bang.
- They may have started the competition with a bang, but South Korea's women's coach, Won Geo Seo, played down the importance of their record-breaking achievements.
Phrasal Verbs Do something in a persistent or dogged way. he was banging away at his novel Example sentencesExamples - Could it be related to the fact that I heard Jackson banging away at the piano in G11, as I passed?
- ‘I think our best problem-solving happens when three or four smart people get together and bang away at it, and we make that as easy as possible,’ he says.
- And as he continued into the following day he continued to work though his repertoire - a good rock ‘n’ roll session, rather than just banging away at a single drum.
- The responsible thing then was to drag your weary body to work, superglue your eyelids open and bang away at the keyboard so nobody else would suffer.
- No sleep, no rice for a week, a family wedding and a five km marathon, and I'm here banging away at 11-30 p.m.
- That's what Ranieri the player was like, constantly banging away at something until he succeeded, without caring whether more talented people succeeded on the first attempt.
- We do need to keep banging away at the healthy eating message, and hope that it begins to get through.
- I fully intend to spend my time reading, not banging away at a keyboard.
- It would do us well to ponder these words as we sit daily banging away at our computers, talking on our cell phones, and whizzing our faxes to the four corners of earth.
- We were banging away at the council for eight months before they finally agreed it was a new-build.
- From National Review to the Wall Street Journal, the usual suspects have been banging away at the expedient scandal.
- The unexpected closing surge from the Scots continued, and they had been banging away at the Newport line once again in injury-time when the referee blew for no-side.
- If we in the industry hadn't kept banging away at these drugs, we wouldn't have ever known that better ones could be found.
- Later that week, Jill the Very, Very Good Tester is banging away at the code, rolling her forehead back and forth on the keyboard or some equally cruel test.
- ‘There is a great deal more to writing for the musical theater than learning notation, the meaning of a diminished seventh, or banging away at a typewriter in some lonely room,’ he acknowledged.
- They are forced to live in ‘barracks’ of the companies that sponsor them and are required to spend 12 hours a day banging away at their console games practicing for major contests (which are televised).
- My prediction: groups who oppose the Morning News' positions will start banging away at them, using comments from the blog as proof of editorial perfidy and moral unclarity.
- And while Nick Jago's drumming would benefit from more practice on fills and less on banging away at the high-hat, it still provides the purring engine that drives this beautiful machine.
- The next thing I know he's banging away at the car and it's rocking like hell.
- I believe there is a vast and unseen military effort banging away at the very foundations of the Baathists, and we have yet to really see it unfold.
the programme is bang on about the fashion world Example sentencesExamples - It is quite a forgiving rod that lets you off when your timing isn't bang on.
- But the whole foxhunting/inner city poverty thing is pretty much bang on.
- He was bang on, too, in his observations about the entrepreneurial nature of Maori.
- We did read the URL that you supplied, and intuitively we knew that it was true and bang on when we read it.
- The mixture is fairly gelatinous in texture, but the calibration of sweet and sour elements is bang on.
- We even got to point at David Blaine and laugh, so it was bang on, really.
- The vocals were bang on, and the beat had people dancing to the bizarre electro-melody.
- Once again the budget carrier's marketing department had got it bang on.
- It looks beautiful; what Roth says about attention to detail is bang on.
- When both coaches get their schemes bang on, then you look to an individual to come up with a piece of magic that nobody can plan against.
- While some fans were distracted as police and stewards quickly dealt with it, City showed their concentration level was bang on.
- With no fresh injury problems to report, Bolton should be bang on for victory at the weekend.
- Having grown up in the '70s, I can cite a couple of films that capture the period bang on.
- On some nights, it'll just be bang on, and all these people will come out.
Synonyms correct, precise, exact, right, errorless, error-free, without error, faultless, perfect, valid, specific, detailed, minute, explicit, clear-cut, word for word, unambiguous, meticulous, authoritative, reliable, canonical
1Play music noisily, enthusiastically, and unskilfully. Dad was annihilating a Beethoven sonata, banging out notes Example sentencesExamples - I've got them written, I just have to bang them out and record them.
- The tunes are banged out with such verve the audience has no time to miss the strings and horns that adorned the originals - though sections of the audience join Lee in sketching them in vocally.
- They know how to bang riffs out of their axes well, but it tends to get buried beneath the mediocrity and predictability of their songwriting.
- Tasha-Ray rips on guitar, her sister Lacey-Lee is a kick-butt keyboardist, Louise jams bass and Kim bangs it out on drums.
- Composers make gorgeous music, and can bang their moods out on a piano.
- They were banging the beat out on the dashboard so hard that the music stopped.
- He auditioned it before Stalin's musically illiterate arts committee by banging it out on a piano and singing in his own, unreliable voice.
- They bang the tunes out one after another, the playing's tight, the energy never flags.
- If people aren't listening to you in music, you don't care, you can just bang it out.
2Produce something hurriedly or in great quantities. they weren't banging out ads in my day the way they are now Example sentencesExamples - I know because I saw him sit down at the typewriter and begin banging it out in his inimitable style, which included forced nicknames and chatty familiarity.
- Well, for sixty five grand, I have to say I might just bang something out.
- I think someone saw Wrath of Khan before they banged the script out.
- If that's the case, I'll let you in on a little secret: I usually try to bang these things out, at least a rough copy, on the Sunday night prior to the Thursday on which you read them.
- If it weren't enough that I banged a book out this past Monday, now there is a companion website…
- Who am I to tell you one way or the other, given that I am banging these words out on a keyboard in my Hong Kong home?
- (Producer and co-star) Mark Redfield and I made the deal to start shooting ‘Sally’ and before you know it, a first draft of a script was banged out, and it just went from there.
- I really need to get cracking on the writing test (or just e-mail it to hyper disciplined Odious, who could probably bang this thing out in a nanosecond).
- It seems like networks can bang these things out in about a year or two, so I'm pretty sure we'll see something soon.
- Ken Loach keeps banging them out, but this is the one I'd pick.
- Finished one column this morning; composed the other on the way to work, and banged it out with a minimum of fuss and second guessing.
- So I banged it out on my office laptop; logged on to the office mainframe, sent the column.
- We sent him some rough demos and he banged his parts out in two days.
- Two decades in, Nick Cave and co. decided to bang an album out in a week from the ground up.
- He got his trio of set-top box posts done within the day so hopefully I'll bang my essay out within the week.
- They have to decide if they want to do repeat and then original, repeat and original, and kind of lose their momentum, or just, you know, bang them out all at once.
- I could bang the story out in a day, the agency guy suggested, and the magazines would print it because ‘Alan Guebert, one of their own, had written it.’
- ‘I can usually bang something out fast,’ he says, ‘whereas others might take a long time. I can never sit still, and it's hard for me to focus.’
- He's working on the plane as he travels around the country on his laptop computer banging it out.
- I have NO idea what Thursday's Fence will be like, because I banged that thing out without heed for the usual rules of coherence.
bang someone/something up they've been banged up for something they didn't do Example sentencesExamples - Who could forget Blair's support for the ‘Free Deidre’ campaign, when Corrie favourite Deirdre Barlow was banged up for fraud?
- But, whispers a seductive voice, why not bang them up, just to be on the safe side?
- More than 12,000 British people are banged up like this every year, only to be found not guilty of any crime when their trial finally arrives.
- The bag contained a teddy bear, some fruit and some clothes but magistrates had no sympathy and banged him up for 10 days under public nuisance laws.
- This gives inmates only an hour in which to shower, play pool, chat and relax, before they are banged up alone again.
- It is better, I ruefully think, to enter a state of perpetual frisk for everyone, than to automatically bang poor kids up in the slammer simply because they were themselves afraid.
- But he had been banged up for a while, and didn't know how to put together the alliances, how to outreach and work with others.
- Awaiting trial, they are banged up at Cook County Jail under the tight regime of crooked prison matron Morton (singer Queen Latifah in the mama of all big mama roles).
- As quick as you could say ‘Slipper of the Yard’ he was banged up in Belmarsh jail.
- If these allegations were made about me I would be banged up by now.
- I hope they catch whoever did this and bang him up for life.
- The streets are safer now this scum has been banged up’ reported P.C. Agenda.
- What is the point of banging him up in prison or a lunatic asylum?
- They'd banged me up at just after 1am and they let me out at 5.30 am.
- Last August a mob-handed police raid whisked them off without any warning and banged them up behind the barbed wire of Harmondsworth detention centre at Heathrow.
- When French tourists are banged up for disciplining their child in a restaurant, or a teacher is sacked for smacking a daughter who plays up in the dentist's waiting room, the message gets useful reinforcement.
- The fact that they had only ever spent 10 nights apart - because Paul was banged up in a Japanese police cell for possession of marijuana - is often quoted as the indisputable evidence.
- The hardest thing is getting the lawyers to bang them up so I hope this new terror legislation will help cure some of those ills.
- Mickey, Danny, Albert, Ash and Stacie return from a well-earned break to discover that old-time grifter Harry Holmes has been banged up.
- 1.1North American Damage or injure someone or something.
Example sentencesExamples - Defenses increasingly are forcing Jake Delhomme to move the ball and now first-half star Stephen Davis is banged up.
- Smoltz missed all of last year after undergoing elbow surgery, Veras blew out a knee and Jordan was banged up most of the second half.
- Lakers forward Karl Malone has been banged up and just generally not close to his old self, missing wide-open jumpers and struggling to get into any kind of rhythm.
- Oronde Gadsden was banged up, and James McKnight and Dedric Ward are bit players who can have big games on occasion, but neither makes the ‘must stop’ list on opponents' defensive game plans.
- The key on defense is health, because key players LB Jessie Armstead and Hamilton have been banged up, and their backups have little experience.
- The Cardinals have suffered without LCB Duane Starks all season and Renaldo Hill has been banged up.
- I know Angola was banged up, and that obviously was a factor, but we had a lot of guys do some good things.
- That means you were banged up badly enough to get sent home, but not permanently hurt.
- Numerous starters and key reserves are banged up and missing practice time or games.
- RB Eddie George and QB Steve McNair were banged up and looked as though they were aging in dog years.
- He thrived late last season when Davis was banged up, and the coaches hope to use Foster more.
- When Derrick Brooks was banged up two years ago, that defense was not the same.
- He didn't fare as well in his only extended action as a full-time starter in Houston last season, but the Texans' offensive line and QB David Carr were banged up.
- Right now, I banged my knee up pretty badly and I have a back problem.
- Upon being helped from the vehicle, Smathers, whose knees had been banged up in the crash, collapsed to the ground.
- They were left with no running game, and their defense was banged up.
- Yes, Romeo Crennel has some work to do and his team is banged up.
- The Aggies weren't horrible even though they were banged up in 2002, going 6-6 with two of the losses in overtime and two others by a touchdown or less.
- Does it seem like a lot of baseball teams are banged up?
- That has changed in recent weeks as Foster emerged while Davis was banged up.
Origin Mid 16th century: imitative, perhaps of Scandinavian origin; compare with Old Norse bang 'hammering'. This is probably a Scandinavian word, which imitates the sound. The American expression bang for your buck, ‘value for money, return on your investment’, was originally used in the early 1950s of military spending, especially on nuclear weapons. The phrase bang on, meaning ‘exactly right, excellent’, originated in air force slang, and referred to dropping a bomb exactly on target. A nuclear explosion was referred to as the big bang in John Osborne's 1957 play Look Back in Anger: ‘If the big bang does come, and we all get killed off…’. Nowadays the Big Bang is more usually the explosion in which the universe originated. It was originally a term of ridicule, used by the scientist Fred Hoyle (1915–2001) in 1950, but is now the standard term for a respectable theory. In 1986 it was also the name given to the major changes in trading on the Stock Exchange introduced that year.
Rhymes Battambang, bhang, clang, Da Nang, dang, fang, gang, hang, harangue, kiang, Kuomintang, Kweiyang, Laing, Luang Prabang, meringue, Nanchang, Pahang, pang, parang, Penang, prang, Pyongyang, rang, sang, satang, Shang, shebang, Shenyang, slambang, slang, spang, sprang, Sturm und Drang, tang, thang, trepang, twang, vang, whang, Xizang, yang, Zaozhuang noun baŋbæŋ variant spelling of bhang
nounbaNGbæŋ 1A sudden loud noise. the door slammed with a bang I heard a series of loud bangs Example sentencesExamples - A loud bang accompanied with boisterous laughter startled her out from her thoughts and she groaned to herself.
- Locals reported hearing two loud bangs before the main explosion.
- All of a sudden, a loud bang erupted from behind him followed by a shriek of pain.
- Pets are on tranquillisers and I have seen some horrible images of damage done to other animals frightened by loud bangs.
- So if you hear loud crashes and bangs while walking past the Grammar, don't worry, it's only a couple of robots having a fight.
- Should we be entertaining ourselves with loud bangs and explosions?
- Not so long ago, such loud, booming bangs would have sent shivers down the spines of many.
- A loud bang sounded, almost like a crack of thunder, but there was no pain, only blackness.
- Whether the display is at 2pm or 2am is immaterial to animals, most of whom are terrorised by the sudden and loud bangs.
- A loud bang occurred when he slammed onto the hard, solid ground on his back.
- Evacuating the offices, they heard loud bangs and crashing noises in the loft above their office and raised the alarm.
- The late-nights thuds and bangs have made it loud and clear - it's firework time again.
- The station was flooded with complaints reporting of loud bangs from Sunset Beach to Tarcoola Beach.
- Police were called to the scene after a neighbour reported hearing a loud bang.
- With a loud bang, she slammed into the wall at the bottom of the stairway.
- The driver reported hearing a loud bang near the front of the vehicle and stopped to investigate, said Ernst.
- Hazel Stewart, 50, a teacher in the village, said locals were woken yesterday morning by a loud bang as the car smashed into the pub.
- A cabin crew member also later reported hearing a loud bang from the ceiling of the aircraft just before the vibrations began.
- People should also be aware that the elderly can be very frightened by loud bangs and also animals.
Synonyms sharp noise, crack, boom, clang, peal, clap, pop, snap, knock, tap, slam, bump, thud, thump, clunk, clonk, clash, crash, smash, smack - 1.1 A sharp blow causing a sudden, loud noise.
I went to answer a bang on the front door Example sentencesExamples - When it came within a metre of the canoe, Henri gave it a hard bang on the snout with his paddle.
- ‘My computer's broken,’ James said, rapping his knuckles on the machine and issuing a dull bang.
- Neighbours said they were woken by loud bangs and crashes.
- Many of the wrecks around our coasts are either mine or torpedo victims, and either way there is a colossal bang, the ship gets a big chunk blown out of it and the rest lands in a heap nearby.
- Just as we began playing there was a loud bang on the front door.
- Then his team romped around Cambridge in a pair of Humvees to tune the system so that it wasn't fooled by normal urban bangs and jolts.
- All of this would have taken a few seconds when suddenly there was a bang and the car jolted.
- He turned and punched the nearest wall with a resounding bang.
- Cushioned to protect your computer from bangs and bruises, the bags have reinforced straps and expandable openings.
- At exactly 1pm, when the ship was about a mile off Beadnell Point, there was a small bang, followed by a colossal explosion which blew off the bow.
- Suddenly a bang on the door was heard; Emilee and Lilly shot their glances onto the door, but it was only a bat.
- There was no vehicle parked outside, there was no bang on the door and no card through the letter box.
- The house did not suffer any structural damage but when the lightning hit the house there was an enormous bang, the fuses blew and the power went.
- Instead he lied and told them that he had heard a bang on the floor, and it was not until many hours after the accident that he told police the truth.
- A large bang upon the large double doors nearly took Alex out of his train of thought.
- His deep laugh mingled with the splashing of the water as a bang on the wall indicated Paul Hutchinson's annoyance.
- More instructive was watching how quickly the experienced NCOs jumped and ran at any bangs from the drive bells.
- 1.2 A sudden painful blow.
Example sentencesExamples - His partner Agustin Pichot also took a bang on the head but it will hardly be revealed that he has concussion.
- Young Andrew Wilson, until a bang on the head necessitated his withdrawal, again played very well.
- I took a slight bang on the elbow, but the shoulder is absolutely fine - there was no reaction.
- Then Chris got a bang on the head and said he would feel better if I kept on kicking anyway.
- Defender Matt Hocking is also not expected to travel to Keele after taking a bang on the head just minutes into last night's second half.
- Whether it was because of the blow or the resulting bang against the column, Suzanne didn't know.
- Rugby is the all-time leader in biffs and bangs and broken bones, but you don't often die.
- But, despite losing their playmaker, Mark Toohey, after only three minutes of the game with a bang on the head, the Bulldogs made their Super League opponents fight all the way.
- She said Mr Cawthraw had been perfectly healthy until he had a bang on his head at work last November and passed out.
- He took a bang on his head as he landed and someone must have told him he was Lev Yashin as the keeper got better.
- The wing-back suffered a bang on the hip in training and while he would probably have been fit to face his former club he now has more time to recover.
- John Hayden was hurt and Thomas Walsh got a bang on the cheekbone, which looks like a fracture.
- She was shunted from the rear on her way to the flag and had a nasty bang into the bank just before the finish line.
- But I never realised he was, well, you know, I just thought he'd had a bang on the head.
- The wife was shutting the garage door tonight and I didn't get out of the way quick enough, so I got a bang on the head.
- My parents were actually worried about me playing rugby because of the old bang on the head.
Synonyms blow, hit, punch, knock, thump, rap, bump, thwack, smack, crack, slap, welt, cuff, box
2bangsNorth American A fringe of hair cut straight across the forehead. she brushed back her wispy bangs Example sentencesExamples - She had blond hair with bangs falling into her baby blue eyes.
- This face had chocolate brown hair with bangs almost in his dark blue eyes, which were framed with large round glasses.
- A twelve-year-old boy with dark hair and long bangs hung around the wood-burning stove.
- A person with brown hair and long bangs was the only one who stopped his track and turned around.
- She had a dark and straight hair, with bangs falling over her purple eyes.
- In the month and a half since they stopped speaking, the vice president had cut his hair, shaggy with bangs and he looked more like a boy.
- A cold sweat moistened his red hair and his bangs were plastered to his forehead.
- Her striking sapphire eyes looked violet, framed by her straight bangs and perfectly arched eyebrows.
- I stared into his deep blue eyes, a few bangs of chestnut hair tumbled down his forehead.
- After brushing her hair and letting her bangs fall over her forehead, Jewel went into the kitchen of her apartment.
- One day she would have blonde straight long hair and bangs and blue eyes, the next black curly hair and brown eyes.
- Her usual curly hair was pulled up in a French roll with bangs falling over the forehead.
- A lecherous smile played on his lips and his hair was set loose, dark bangs falling over his forehead.
- I came up again to float on my back, short hair fanning around me, bangs plastered to my forehead.
- Madison had silky black hair, half up and with bangs to cover her forehead.
- The long bangs of her dark hair fell in front of her face.
- The mage hid his face with the bangs of his midnight hair.
- Her black hair had crooked bangs as if she'd cut it herself.
- She had drawn a girl with long bangs and her hair pulled back in a ponytail.
- His jet-black hair was slightly longer than most guys kept their hair; his bangs fell forward in spikes at his forehead.
3vulgar slang An act of sexual intercourse. 4North American Computing
The character “!”.
verbbaNGbæŋ [with object]1Strike or put down (something) forcefully and noisily, typically in anger or in order to attract attention. he began to bang the table with his fist Sarah banged the phone down no object someone was banging on the door Example sentencesExamples - She turned around and began banging her forehead against the wall.
- Chris walked lightly to my closet doorway and began banging his head on the frame lightly.
- He returned, and began to noisily bang his spoon on the table to distract Al-Allaf, who ignored him and continued to read out loud.
- He could hear Chela talking in the other room and began loudly banging the book on the table beside the laptop.
- The other two burst out laughing, banging the table top with their paws.
- And in the front, a group of students are having a rap contest as they make their beats by banging on the table.
- The neighbors downstairs banged on the ceiling and so then I began banging my head against the wall.
- He promptly stood in front of it and began banging his head upon the curved surface.
- Jas got bored and began banging his heels against the chair legs.
- Simon started cracking up again, banging his hand dramatically on the table as he held his stomach.
- I put my head on the table and began to rhythmically bang it.
- He looked around quickly and desperately began banging his head against the nearest wall.
- I begin banging my head against the table top, rattling the plates and cutlery.
- The fork shivered angrily and then slid across the table, banging Sven's glass.
- At this point I began banging my head on the table, so I turned the TV off.
- She began banging things around as she cooked the fish, and in the process of being spiteful and noisy, splashed herself with hot grease.
- When he gets to me, he removes the person sitting opposite, flips down a tiny wall table, and bangs his elbow on it, hand open.
- From the very first scene, when those little orphan girls begin banging their buckets on the ground in unison singing It's a Hard Knock Life, they had me.
- The mess table shook as Seahorse banged his forehead on it.
- I began to bang my head on the table in front of me.
Synonyms hit, strike, beat, thump, hammer, knock, rap, pound, thud, punch, bump, thwack, smack, crack, slap, slam, welt, cuff, pummel, buffet - 1.1 Come into contact with (something) suddenly and sharply, typically by accident.
I banged my head on the low beams no object she banged into some shelves in the darkness Example sentencesExamples - Her head banged sharply against the underside of the desk.
- Her head came up so quickly that she banged it on the shelf above her.
- On a regular basis, she would slam him into a wall or table, often banging his head into the wall.
- You know that red mist thing where you find yourself punching some inoffensive article of furniture for no better reason than that you have just banged into it?
- One man nearly crashed his car and another banged into a lamppost.
- He holds a mic to his lips to emit a noise that is a cross between a mosquito dazedly banging into a porch light and a junior high video class sound effect of a crashing UFO.
- I assumed […] that the noise we heard was my car banging into one of the pillars of the house.
- The next thing I know I have banged into the ref and he has gone down.
- And people just don't stop: everywhere you go they are banging into you.
- He seemed to return her bitterness as he sharply walked past, banging into my shoulder on his way.
- Crystal pleaded as the cat darted down the alleyway banging into trash cans and making all kinds of noise as it went.
- He tried to stand up and banged his head rather painfully on a shelf sticking out of the wall.
- Standing up quickly, she banged her head against the top shelf in the cupboard and cursed.
- I go to Hreod Parkway normally but I was worried that people might bang into my back.
- Things in the room were starting to crash and bang into each other, making a mighty ruckus.
- I bolted upright and banged my head on the shelf in the closet.
- Then there was the personal injury claim from a man who jumped from his bed when he heard his car being hit and banged his head on a shelf.
- As she raised her free hand, Ian, sensing a slap, flinched away and banged his head hard into the corner of a shelf.
- They were banging into elbows and not apologizing or anything.
- The worst part of that crash was likely the people banging into each other.
- 1.2 (of a sports player) hit (a ball or a shot) forcefully and successfully.
in his second start he banged out two hits Example sentencesExamples - Fast bowlers bang the ball in but nothing hits the splice of the bat, there are no edges, shoulders drop and there is an air of lethargy and helplessness in the movement of fielders.
- I thought I would turn and bang the ball because I had seen the keeper move a little bit towards the far post and leave a small gap at his near post.
- Pock were unable to take advantage of their numerical superiority until Mitchell banged over a 40 yard penalty.
- So he started the second half intent on spraying line drives all over the park and relying on his speed by banging balls into the ground.
- The ball spun for the Ecuadorean and he banged in a fierce shot which the goalkeeper could only palm away.
- He ran superbly from full-back and banged over seven goals as Leigh secured their place against Salford in the Arriva Trains Cup final.
- One after another they banged the ball out of the infield, line-drives and whizzing grounders and almost all of them got on base.
- By comparison, the three Eagles tries came off Bulldog mistakes while Eagles flyhalf Hugo van As banged over four penalties and a conversion.
- I was going on twenty-one years of age and just banging the balls around trying to cut in hard shots.
- Extra time loomed after Kevin Sinfield banged over a late penalty but Warriors had one last throw of the dice and Tickle's timely one-pointer was enough.
- Addingham were trying to spread play out wide but each time they lost possession, the ball was banged straight back down route one style.
- When you started your career as a first class cricketer in India, you were a lively fast medium bowler who loved banging the ball in short.
- They can try like crazy to bang the ball inside and have the guards try to drive through traffic, but it's of little use.
- It was clear from the moment he went on-loan to Bournemouth as a West Ham player, and banged in all those goals on the bounce, that this was a special talent.
- McBride singled in a run in the second, banging a ball off the glove of diving third baseman Ken Boyer to score Leon Wagner.
- If his team has banged in five, he's the most ecstatic fan on the park and doesn't mind who knows it.
- Bagwell banged a career-high 47 homers that season, knocked in 132 runs and hit .310.
- You either bang the hell out of the ball or you stand back and absorb it.
- And, in his first major league at-bat, he banged a single off veteran right-hander Hank Borowy.
- He's just banged in ten goals from midfield and has come good at the right time.
- 1.3no object Make a sudden loud noise, typically repeatedly.
the shutter was banging in the wind Example sentencesExamples - It rang like a huge gong banging relentlessly into the silence.
- Her boots banged louder and harder and with each step she screamed to herself the words she had been thinking for four days but never uttered.
- He floored it and we sped off with the engine roaring, banging and clattering like a class of five year olds in the school music room.
- People were throwing up on the lawn as loud music banged through the walls.
- The boxes shook, banged, and shuddered, yet they stayed closed.
- However the wind outside was making it bang too much so I locked it, and later when the cat wanted to go outside he meowed for me to open it for him.
- I heard shutters banging and people wailing and babies crying and dog barking.
- Two loud, sharp knocks banged at the black doors guarding the entrance to the Calestia Dela.
- But those who make a living from the sea know that tides don't merely ebb and flow, they crash and bang.
- Noise banged through the high-ceilinged, uncarpeted room, matching the din inside her skull.
- A window lay open, revealing a steel-grey sky beyond the wooden shutters, banging as the wind whistled furiously outside.
- The family was asleep while the storm crashed and banged - Gnat decided she wouldn't sleep today.
Synonyms explode, crack, go off with a bang, detonate, burst, blow up - 1.4 (with reference to a door) open or close violently and noisily.
with object and complement he banged the kitchen door shut behind him no object, with complement the door banged open and a man staggered out Example sentencesExamples - She heard the whoosh of a flushing toilet, and one of the stall doors banged open to reveal a girl with bronze skin and curly dark hair.
- The front door banged open and soon, Joel was at my side.
- She said she heard doors banging and loud music on the night of the attack.
- When the door had banged open so suddenly, she had been startled enough to let out a yelp loud enough for anyone in the house to hear.
- Then the back door had banged open and Sonny had followed the college boy out to his car, quick long strides crunching over gravel.
- He got about two steps towards the doors before they banged open and the room was blinded with light.
- She banged open the door of her locker, and put on her armour with a speed born of practice.
- She then went straight to Lily's house and banged open the door.
- Suddenly the doors banged open and I looked up to see three dark men.
- The car door closest to Tyler banged open and a tall girl of 17 stepped out from it.
- We suffered a similar situation for six years during which time we had to put up with loud music, doors banging at all hours and verbal abuse.
- But Karen was already gone, laughter trailing behind her, webbing the screen door as it banged open and shut.
- They also don't stay up all night playing rather loud music, and banging all the house doors.
- The kitchen door banged open behind us and voice drifted out
- She banged open the door to find them all huddled together in a large group, lounging on the floor, obviously discussing something.
- Another hour later, the screen door banged open with a small clatter.
- Beneath him, heavy footsteps raced from room to room, and doors banged open.
- He was in such a rush to get in and out of the sight of passers by that he banged open the door with a resounding crash.
- Just then the front door banged open and I jumped as a man ran into the room.
- Iroka awoke with a start as the front door banged open and a figure stumbled in.
Synonyms go bang, crash, smash, thud - 1.5no object, with adverbial of direction (of a person) move around or do something noisily, especially as an indication of anger or irritation.
she was banging around the kitchen Example sentencesExamples - As I walk downstairs, I can hear the sound of my mother banging around in the kitchen, muffled by something.
- It's like a whirlwind version of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, but with more characters banging about and fewer insights into them.
- Ian heard Linda banging around in the bedroom, and walked to the doorway.
- I could hear Kathy banging around in the house and a moment later she came back into the lounge where I was standing, waiting.
- Timur and Anikei banged out of the house as the narrative was winding down.
- The three women banged and clattered down the stairs and out the door.
- But told the jury the noise problems had been real with loud music being played at night, doors being slammed and people banging around.
- I could hear Mom banging around downstairs, probably making something else.
- I use the dishes, banging around, making lots of noise.
- He started banging around in the kitchen, then he picked up his keys and went storming out.
2North American Cut (hair) in a fringe. 3vulgar slang (typically used of a man) have sexual intercourse with.
adverbbaNGbæŋ British informal 1Exactly. bang in the middle of town Example sentencesExamples - The bus leaves bang on time, and we roll along the freeways as the sun rises and adds a flush to the Rockies on our right.
- Slap bang in the middle of the week commencing September 17, it's the Top Gear charity karting evening.
- We were collected at the college bang on 11.00 am and had a great drive up through the Lakes.
- Slap bang in the centre of Vietnam is Hoi An, a charismatic old port bearing all the architectural hallmarks of its commercial heritage.
- Slap bang in the heart of Sligo Town, McGarrigles may not be here at the end of 2003, but they are still alive and kicking.
- Slap bang in the middle of the box was a huge walnut.
- And, bang on cue, Barry strode on to stage dripping blood, sat down at the drums and started to play.
- While the boys struggled, the girls from Rosary Convent were bang on the target.
- One of the nuclear trains from our local power plant trundled past at quarter past eight, bang on time.
- Diva may be an overused word, but it's bang on the button here.
- Not only is it bang next door to Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in Britain, but it also boasts the country's highest ski run, at 4000 feet.
- It's a 15-room guesthouse, bang on the waterfront and at the heart of all local goings-on.
- We are also bang opposite the London Eye, and very close, but I forgot to take pictures of that.
- The holy grail for any magazine is hitting your target market bang on the nail.
- Even so, I woke up after only 45 minutes of the alarm going off and made it to my desk bang on 10.
- His satisfaction would have been boosted by the fact that his loud celebrations were taking place bang next door to Rotherham's M&S store.
- It's not just that they think Europe is bang next door to Afghanistan.
Synonyms precisely, exactly, right, directly, immediately, squarely, just, dead - 1.1 Completely.
bring your wardrobe bang up to date Example sentencesExamples - Romeo and Juliet's gear conveyed a bang up-to-the-minute approach to love-making while, in truth, it was a bit starchy.
- We've focused on the rest, which we hope has some value: observations on Sun's integrator strategy and company history that are bang up to date.
- These are perhaps most obvious as we leave the prison, and walk past the site of what will become a bang up-to-date mother and baby facility, due to open next year.
- The aesthetic of the series is bang up-to-date, ultramodern stuff.
- The organisation was updated bang 21st century.
- House of Fraser had a bang up-to-date Phillips TV at £799.99, half the usual price.
- She's bang up to now without kowtowing to fashion, and catches the zeitgeist in a completely individual way.
- It also means the curriculum is bang up-to-date, with Merlin crews who took part in the conflict in Iraq feeding their observations and experiences back to the squadron.
- Presented by Ian Wright, Spy TV brings the hidden-camera format bang up-to-date.
- Software is the bang up-to-date Office XP Small Business Edition and it's backed up by a one-year, collect-and-return warranty.
- An example of a bang in the middle of town and bang up-to-date venue is The Hub, in Edinburgh.
- I have to make sure that my material is bang up-to-date, which means scouring the web to check for new developments.
- The drop in revenues between the fourth quarter and the first quarter of this year is bang in line with the trend of the past three years.
Synonyms completely, absolutely, totally, entirely, wholly, fully, thoroughly, utterly, quite, altogether, one hundred per cent, downright, unqualifiedly, in all respects, unconditionally, perfectly, unrestrictedly, undisputedly, to the maximum extent
exclamationbaNGbæŋ 1Used to express or imitate the sound of a sudden loud noise. Example sentencesExamples - I put all my strength into hitting this wooden shield, and it was - bang!
- Of course we have to do it - so we did - and the predictable result was the gun went bang every time.
- It would be let loose from the top of the hill and we would all line up and let fire with our double barrels: bang!
- On November 5, we watched fireworks, but those we hear now are nothing like I remember; they are just bang, bang, bang!
- I was casting out my spinner and next thing, bang!
- A few seconds passed, a few more - then, just as I took them away, bang!
- I was staring mesmerized at the erratic pfft coming from the brown-paper cylinder when - bang!
- One night I started twisting the dial, hoping that something would happen, and then - bang!
- Damn, 57 years loaded with ammo that was 61 years old and it went bang every time.
2Used to convey the suddenness of an action or process. the minute something becomes obsolete, bang, it's gone Example sentencesExamples - Sugar triggers the release of feel-good hormones into your brain - and, bang, you're fixed.
- There was no consultation with New Zealand First, but through an agreement with United Future and the Greens - bang!
- And one particular day when I was particularly tired, she was talking, and my eyes closed, and the next thing was, bang!
- Willow and Tara reunite, have great sex and, bang, Tara's dead.
- Get blind drunk, snog, repeat the next week, repeat the next week, bang!
- You just need to know a good joke, or have the comical sense to see absurdity in daily life and… bang!
- Then, as I inched closer, it locked on - bang, got it!
- You want a piece of music - bang, you can download it.
- Just when you thought it was safe to never watch a Cavs game again, bang!
- It happens once, twice, three times and you get so fed up you argue and, bang, you are arrested and it's a criminal record.
- So I started up Windows Media Player and, bang, the virus warnings started again, each time telling me the darn thing had been deleted.
- And it just got progressively more and more and more, just keeping on adding to our jobs… and then one morning… bang!
- All I'd have to do is read, memorize lines and, bang, people would love me.
- Here we are, smoothly bringing the tail down with the fluke adjusted to just the right angle of attack, when - bang!
- The judge is on the marae, he does something that someone says is contrary to tikanga Maori, and, bang, the judge is up on a complaint.
- Then, all of a sudden, bang, they're going as well.
- Just when you think that childhood diseases were nothing more than a fuzzy memory - bang, you develop shingles.
- I mean, he had me all built up there for awhile and then, bang!
- Then, just as we are immersed in the realism we've conjured for ourselves, bang!
- Even enjoying someone's company becomes loaded with expectation and social convention, fears that this will lead to that, and then, bang!
Synonyms suddenly, abruptly, immediately, instantaneously, instantly, in an instant, straight away, all of a sudden, at once, all at once, promptly, in a trice, swiftly
Phrases bang for one's (or the) buck informal Value for money; performance for cost. this cross between a sports car and a family sedan gave a lot of bang for the buck Example sentencesExamples - To me, short films are the best value and most bang for your buck.
- A lot of companies can get a lot of bang for their buck out of the investment.
- Cruises still offer a lot of bang for your buck, and with specials as low as $300 or $400 per person, many travelers can save with a sea vacation.
- They spend more money, they're getting less bang for their buck and this is an opportunity for them to associate with the show on many levels.
- There's a lot of bang for your buck with this disc.
- One of the reasons is because you get a lot of bang for your buck with their products.
- Your entire body is involved in each move, so you're getting a lot more bang for your buck.
- Given that films at the Bloomsbury Theatre only cost £2.50, I can certainly say I got a lot of bang for my buck.
- So they might as well try to get a lot of bang for their buck and sell it while they can.
- Yeah, so you don't actually get a lot of bang for your buck as far as jokes out of the time we spend together.
- However, according to Fisher, ‘You may spend more money but you'll get more bang for your buck.’
- Thanks to cutthroat competition and continued innovation in the tech industry, corporate buyers are finding that they can get more bang for their buck when they do decide to put their money to work.
- While many tech execs are moping, corporations get a lot more bang for their buck.
- Meanwhile, we shouldn't be too harsh on our governments, which want to spend the taxpayers' money to, in this case, ensure less bang for their buck.
- Granted, this only covers four days, but I think I got a lot of movie bang for my buck.
- This will spare you the cost of resizing the opening, and still give you a lot of bang for your buck.
- Fortunately, our customers will benefit from getting a lot of bang for their buck when they upgrade.
- Season Four certainly didn't lack for drama or surprise, and Fox really delivers a lot of bang for your buck with the extras this time around.
- Each of these featurettes lasts around a half-hour, so you know you're getting a lot of film bang for your buck.
- But with this much firepower, you expect a lot more bang for your buck.
informal Derive excitement or pleasure from. some people get a bang out of reading that stuff Example sentencesExamples - Sylvia Fisher gets a bang out of approaching people in the international tent at the AirVenture grounds and speaking to them in their native languages.
- So, is it possible that a woodchuck might expand its horizons, meet with a richer fate, and get a bang out of a ride in the opposite direction?
- It's way too silly for words, but if your children are familiar with the Peanuts strip, they might get a bang out of this.
- If someone gets a bang out of seeing the Stooges in color, I say let 'em enjoy themselves.
- Lots of youngsters get a bang out of watching the puppy snarf up bits of food thrown on the floor, so Misha should be locked away while the little ones eat.
- Unlike me, Fat Mikey simply did not get a bang out of crocheting afghans or listening to National Public Radio.
- Innovate E-Commerce gets a bang out of the immediate publicity the awards programs generate.
- There is a segment of the market that gets a bang out of buying those things.
- Students will get a bang out of the ending of this demo.
- Rufus, obviously getting a bang out of his new found ‘status’, took the opportunity to vent.
- Back in the Meredith household, Molly gets a bang out of cruising the house.
- If I had seen it last year, or even a few months ago, I surely would have got a bang out of it.
- If The Who weren't genuinely getting a bang out of this, they did a good job of fooling the crowd in Glen Falls.
- Aunt Pinkey was enough like her nephew to understand and even get a bang out of the ridiculousness of his momentary rage.
- He has the fun of manipulating the bug to coax the fish to it, then he gets a bang out of the strike, right there in plain view, and then the excitement of fighting the fish near the surface.
- I especially got a bang out of the one entitled ‘Doctor Barnhelm perfects his machine for restoring animation’ because of the crazy gadgetry in the background.
- The Northerners are fanatics who'll get a bang out of dying for their cause and leader.
- Only a private boat operator with no one to please but himself can fish with say, lures that he makes and gets a bang out of catching fish on, even though there may be other lures that catch better.
- Kenny got a bang out of all this and asked them if he could take their picture and one guy immediately held up his hand - No.
- If you're fascinated by factoids you might get a bang out of the following information.
the remark brought me down to earth with a bang Example sentencesExamples - Weybridge golfer Paul Casey, ranked 29th in the world, came down to earth with a bang in the Open last week when he failed to make the cut for the final two rounds.
- After last week's great win over Camlough Rovers, Bessbrook United were brought down to earth with a bang when Kilkeel Athletic held them to a 3-3 draw.
- Luckily, London has a canny knack of bringing you back down to earth with a bang and ensuring you don't get unbearably maudlin - take, for instance, yesterday's weepy moment.
- In a season when British Athletics crashed back to earth with a bang after the successes of Sydney, she was one of the few to illuminate a disappointing year.
- However, he failed to impress Bobby Williamson sufficiently, returning to earth with a bang.
- Bypassing Byzantine state restrictions would open up competition with a bang… and most certainly lead to dramatic reductions in insurance costs.
- Ms Del Duca left with a bang, accusing council of ‘staff problems’ and ‘citizens still not getting the service’.
- I will always remember the 1990s as the decade in which the mythologicals came down to earth with a bang.
- Fifty five years is a long time to wait for a repeat and both men are confident that this mighty English team can be brought down to earth with a bang on Sunday.
- He was dumped like hot potato after his first film flopped but he came with a bang with ‘Chandni Bar’ and established himself with ‘Satta’.
- It's back down to Earth with a bang for the Performance Workshop's latest production, however.
- We have paid the penalty for not being prepared and we have been brought down to earth with a bang.
- And who knows, if we have another extended bout of irrational exuberance, how high the shares might climb before coming back to earth with a bang?
- An exuberant Mozilla Foundation has been brought back down to earth with a bang by the world's internet organisations.
- ‘We've come right back down to earth with a bang,’ he said.
- He certainly brought Frenchman Sebastien Grosjean down to earth with a bang in the semi-finals.
- Now, that bought me back down to earth with a bang.
- RI's title rivals, Malton and Norton, fell to earth with a bang following the euphoria they enjoyed after their Tetley's Bitter Vase semi-final win last week.
- Next up was Arsenal and we were brought back down to earth with a bang and a 2-1 defeat.
2Impressively or spectacularly. the occasion went with a bang the day starts with a bang—the steep climb to the mountain top Example sentencesExamples - Their July wedding at St Barnabas's Church went with a bang, despite suffering a few rather unusual hitches.
- Since beginning their season with a bang and four successive wins, the Minstermen have seen their form and fortune dip, rise and dip again.
- Four hundred years after the Gunpowder Plot, Mr Fawkes' election night hardly went with a bang.
- The final of the Buster Under-19 basketball championship ended this year's Inter-Secondary School Sports program with a bang!
- In October, Miller kicked off the current season with a bang, nailing a win in the giant slalom at Sölden, Austria, by more than a second - a huge margin.
- They may have started the competition with a bang, but South Korea's women's coach, Won Geo Seo, played down the importance of their record-breaking achievements.
- If we go out we are determined to go out with a bang.
- It sure opens with a bang: Detroit Rock City, the boys clomping around the stage to that ageless opening riff, the orchestra blasting horns and sawing fiddles like enraged monkeys.
- Pyrotechnic specialists Pa-Boom will round off the celebrations with a bang by providing a spectacular display of sound and smoke.
- A trip to the Isle Of Wight went with a bang - literally - for dozens of pensioners.
- Fence has launched a book series, and done it with a bang - two forceful choices that come out of different worlds in different tones and at different speeds.
- Tony Sullivan made sure Lancashire Day went with a bang in the county capital with a late, late FA Trophy winner against Bromsgrove.
- Nick Warren, owner of Big Nick's Karaoke, waived his normal £200 fee to ensure the party went with a bang.
- Local groups Detox and Catch 22 will get the night's entertainment off with a bang at approximately 8.30 pm for what should prove a highly entertaining night.
- In his last post of our week-long debate on the supposed ‘Constitution in Exile’ movement, Cass Sunstein goes out with a bang.
- The fundraising evening held in aid of the Southern Area Hospice Services turned out to be a brilliant success and proceeded to start the annual charity efforts with a bang.
- A3, as the album is otherwise known, has hit the stands with a bang after packaging it with ‘catchy’ music and endorsement by the superstar, says the company.
- The 2004 Chelmsford Spectacular started and finished with a bang, with chart toppers The Sugababes headlining the opening night of the annual event.
- A huge group of audience members were invited on the stage to ‘get down’ while the ladies went out with a bang in the final show of their very first headlining tour.
- It was Motherless Brooklyn, Lethem's fifth novel in as many years, that finally landed him back in the old neighborhood, with a bang that woke the literary world.
- And the only thing you can do, if you leave ‘American Idol,’ is go out with a bang, and I think that he definitely, definitely did that.
- We are coming back with a bang and I know everyone will really like our new songs’.
- The 2004/2005 pheasant shoot will begin with a bang.
- To begin with a bang: Members are informed that the recording of the much-awaited project - Thiruvasakam in Symphony - in Hungary was over.
- The political year 2003/2004 ended with a bang.
- ‘The Magic of Chemistry’ performance led by Malcolm Armstrong was put on for year seven and eight pupils at Castle View School and literally went with a bang.
- With a whole slew of new crew alliances, nights, guest DJs, clubs and parties to talk about, Montreal has started the year with a bang, so let's cut to the chase and get down to the nitty-gritty.
- Earlier, the Boxing Day card started with a bang as McCoy and Doumen treated spectators to an epic tussle.
- The concept is so original and it started with a bang, the audience being welcomed to the occasion one by one with some amusing improvisation.
- That will set us up nicely for next year and we can start next season with a bang.
- Linda Jones, the university's enterprise director, said: ‘We're sorry to see the old building go but at least we can make sure that it departs with a bang.’
- I even thought 2003 had come in with a bang when a smooch on New Year's Eve progressed to a steamy taxi ride back to my folks' house, who heard nothing of our hanky-pankying.
- Their promise to make good on leaving the NAIA with a bang hinges upon success in these games.
- After starting the season with a bang and matching the club's record start, Saturday's dismissal of Richard Hope saw City equal another record, this time for the number of red cards in a campaign.
- But after two years of disappointing cancellations, due to the foot and mouth outbreak and access problems, organisers wanted to attract as many people as possible to make it go with a bang.
- ‘Pinafore’ proved that Ballina is back with a bang on the light operatic scene and that its exile has in no way resulted in a general diminution of talent.
- It probably means a little bit more to Ian than a normal game because he wants to start with a bang.
Phrasal Verbs Do something in a persistent or dogged way. he was banging away at his novel Example sentencesExamples - Could it be related to the fact that I heard Jackson banging away at the piano in G11, as I passed?
- My prediction: groups who oppose the Morning News' positions will start banging away at them, using comments from the blog as proof of editorial perfidy and moral unclarity.
- No sleep, no rice for a week, a family wedding and a five km marathon, and I'm here banging away at 11-30 p.m.
- The next thing I know he's banging away at the car and it's rocking like hell.
- I believe there is a vast and unseen military effort banging away at the very foundations of the Baathists, and we have yet to really see it unfold.
- ‘There is a great deal more to writing for the musical theater than learning notation, the meaning of a diminished seventh, or banging away at a typewriter in some lonely room,’ he acknowledged.
- Later that week, Jill the Very, Very Good Tester is banging away at the code, rolling her forehead back and forth on the keyboard or some equally cruel test.
- If we in the industry hadn't kept banging away at these drugs, we wouldn't have ever known that better ones could be found.
- The responsible thing then was to drag your weary body to work, superglue your eyelids open and bang away at the keyboard so nobody else would suffer.
- And as he continued into the following day he continued to work though his repertoire - a good rock ‘n’ roll session, rather than just banging away at a single drum.
- ‘I think our best problem-solving happens when three or four smart people get together and bang away at it, and we make that as easy as possible,’ he says.
- They are forced to live in ‘barracks’ of the companies that sponsor them and are required to spend 12 hours a day banging away at their console games practicing for major contests (which are televised).
- From National Review to the Wall Street Journal, the usual suspects have been banging away at the expedient scandal.
- We do need to keep banging away at the healthy eating message, and hope that it begins to get through.
- And while Nick Jago's drumming would benefit from more practice on fills and less on banging away at the high-hat, it still provides the purring engine that drives this beautiful machine.
- That's what Ranieri the player was like, constantly banging away at something until he succeeded, without caring whether more talented people succeeded on the first attempt.
- We were banging away at the council for eight months before they finally agreed it was a new-build.
- The unexpected closing surge from the Scots continued, and they had been banging away at the Newport line once again in injury-time when the referee blew for no-side.
- It would do us well to ponder these words as we sit daily banging away at our computers, talking on our cell phones, and whizzing our faxes to the four corners of earth.
- I fully intend to spend my time reading, not banging away at a keyboard.
1Play music noisily, enthusiastically, and typically unskillfully. Dad was annihilating a Beethoven sonata, banging out notes Example sentencesExamples - They know how to bang riffs out of their axes well, but it tends to get buried beneath the mediocrity and predictability of their songwriting.
- Tasha-Ray rips on guitar, her sister Lacey-Lee is a kick-butt keyboardist, Louise jams bass and Kim bangs it out on drums.
- He auditioned it before Stalin's musically illiterate arts committee by banging it out on a piano and singing in his own, unreliable voice.
- They were banging the beat out on the dashboard so hard that the music stopped.
- The tunes are banged out with such verve the audience has no time to miss the strings and horns that adorned the originals - though sections of the audience join Lee in sketching them in vocally.
- I've got them written, I just have to bang them out and record them.
- They bang the tunes out one after another, the playing's tight, the energy never flags.
- Composers make gorgeous music, and can bang their moods out on a piano.
- If people aren't listening to you in music, you don't care, you can just bang it out.
2Produce something hurriedly or in great quantities. they weren't banging out ads in my day the way they are now Example sentencesExamples - He got his trio of set-top box posts done within the day so hopefully I'll bang my essay out within the week.
- (Producer and co-star) Mark Redfield and I made the deal to start shooting ‘Sally’ and before you know it, a first draft of a script was banged out, and it just went from there.
- Finished one column this morning; composed the other on the way to work, and banged it out with a minimum of fuss and second guessing.
- I really need to get cracking on the writing test (or just e-mail it to hyper disciplined Odious, who could probably bang this thing out in a nanosecond).
- Who am I to tell you one way or the other, given that I am banging these words out on a keyboard in my Hong Kong home?
- Two decades in, Nick Cave and co. decided to bang an album out in a week from the ground up.
- It seems like networks can bang these things out in about a year or two, so I'm pretty sure we'll see something soon.
- He's working on the plane as he travels around the country on his laptop computer banging it out.
- Ken Loach keeps banging them out, but this is the one I'd pick.
- I think someone saw Wrath of Khan before they banged the script out.
- I could bang the story out in a day, the agency guy suggested, and the magazines would print it because ‘Alan Guebert, one of their own, had written it.’
- If that's the case, I'll let you in on a little secret: I usually try to bang these things out, at least a rough copy, on the Sunday night prior to the Thursday on which you read them.
- Well, for sixty five grand, I have to say I might just bang something out.
- If it weren't enough that I banged a book out this past Monday, now there is a companion website…
- So I banged it out on my office laptop; logged on to the office mainframe, sent the column.
- I have NO idea what Thursday's Fence will be like, because I banged that thing out without heed for the usual rules of coherence.
- ‘I can usually bang something out fast,’ he says, ‘whereas others might take a long time. I can never sit still, and it's hard for me to focus.’
- They have to decide if they want to do repeat and then original, repeat and original, and kind of lose their momentum, or just, you know, bang them out all at once.
- I know because I saw him sit down at the typewriter and begin banging it out in his inimitable style, which included forced nicknames and chatty familiarity.
- We sent him some rough demos and he banged his parts out in two days.
bang someone/something up 1Damage or injure someone or something. Example sentencesExamples - That means you were banged up badly enough to get sent home, but not permanently hurt.
- They were left with no running game, and their defense was banged up.
- Yes, Romeo Crennel has some work to do and his team is banged up.
- He thrived late last season when Davis was banged up, and the coaches hope to use Foster more.
- Defenses increasingly are forcing Jake Delhomme to move the ball and now first-half star Stephen Davis is banged up.
- Lakers forward Karl Malone has been banged up and just generally not close to his old self, missing wide-open jumpers and struggling to get into any kind of rhythm.
- Oronde Gadsden was banged up, and James McKnight and Dedric Ward are bit players who can have big games on occasion, but neither makes the ‘must stop’ list on opponents' defensive game plans.
- I know Angola was banged up, and that obviously was a factor, but we had a lot of guys do some good things.
- He didn't fare as well in his only extended action as a full-time starter in Houston last season, but the Texans' offensive line and QB David Carr were banged up.
- Does it seem like a lot of baseball teams are banged up?
- That has changed in recent weeks as Foster emerged while Davis was banged up.
- Upon being helped from the vehicle, Smathers, whose knees had been banged up in the crash, collapsed to the ground.
- The Cardinals have suffered without LCB Duane Starks all season and Renaldo Hill has been banged up.
- The key on defense is health, because key players LB Jessie Armstead and Hamilton have been banged up, and their backups have little experience.
- Smoltz missed all of last year after undergoing elbow surgery, Veras blew out a knee and Jordan was banged up most of the second half.
- Right now, I banged my knee up pretty badly and I have a back problem.
- RB Eddie George and QB Steve McNair were banged up and looked as though they were aging in dog years.
- When Derrick Brooks was banged up two years ago, that defense was not the same.
- The Aggies weren't horrible even though they were banged up in 2002, going 6-6 with two of the losses in overtime and two others by a touchdown or less.
- Numerous starters and key reserves are banged up and missing practice time or games.
- 1.1British Imprison someone.
they've been banged up for something they didn't do Example sentencesExamples - The bag contained a teddy bear, some fruit and some clothes but magistrates had no sympathy and banged him up for 10 days under public nuisance laws.
- But he had been banged up for a while, and didn't know how to put together the alliances, how to outreach and work with others.
- Mickey, Danny, Albert, Ash and Stacie return from a well-earned break to discover that old-time grifter Harry Holmes has been banged up.
- When French tourists are banged up for disciplining their child in a restaurant, or a teacher is sacked for smacking a daughter who plays up in the dentist's waiting room, the message gets useful reinforcement.
- Who could forget Blair's support for the ‘Free Deidre’ campaign, when Corrie favourite Deirdre Barlow was banged up for fraud?
- I hope they catch whoever did this and bang him up for life.
- The hardest thing is getting the lawyers to bang them up so I hope this new terror legislation will help cure some of those ills.
- The streets are safer now this scum has been banged up’ reported P.C. Agenda.
- More than 12,000 British people are banged up like this every year, only to be found not guilty of any crime when their trial finally arrives.
- It is better, I ruefully think, to enter a state of perpetual frisk for everyone, than to automatically bang poor kids up in the slammer simply because they were themselves afraid.
- If these allegations were made about me I would be banged up by now.
- Last August a mob-handed police raid whisked them off without any warning and banged them up behind the barbed wire of Harmondsworth detention centre at Heathrow.
- This gives inmates only an hour in which to shower, play pool, chat and relax, before they are banged up alone again.
- But, whispers a seductive voice, why not bang them up, just to be on the safe side?
- As quick as you could say ‘Slipper of the Yard’ he was banged up in Belmarsh jail.
- Awaiting trial, they are banged up at Cook County Jail under the tight regime of crooked prison matron Morton (singer Queen Latifah in the mama of all big mama roles).
- What is the point of banging him up in prison or a lunatic asylum?
- They'd banged me up at just after 1am and they let me out at 5.30 am.
- The fact that they had only ever spent 10 nights apart - because Paul was banged up in a Japanese police cell for possession of marijuana - is often quoted as the indisputable evidence.
Origin Mid 16th century: imitative, perhaps of Scandinavian origin; compare with Old Norse bang ‘hammering’. nounbaNGbæŋ variant spelling of bhang
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