deep-draw
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of deep-draw
First recorded in 1920–25
Example Sentences
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To Tenedos they come, And the deep-drawing barks do there disgorge Their warlike fraughtage.
From Dramatic Technique by George Pierce Baker
To Tenedos they come, And the deep-drawing barks do there disgorge Their war-like fraughtage.
From Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
When he did, he gave a deep-drawn gasp of surprise.
From The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune by John Henry Goldfrap
His weary head drooped on the pillow of thyme; with a deep-drawn sigh he slept.
From Greene Ferne Farm by Richard Jefferies
The graybeard slowly shook his head, and the deep-drawn sigh that issued from his lips seemed to Gilbert Oglander to betoken a whole world of past troubles and present gratitude.
From The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR by Robert Leighton
Then he stretched out his arms with a deep-drawn breath, and threw himself into an arm chair.
From For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. I (of II) A Romance of the Present Time by Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar Meding
We hear of his deep-drawn sigh of satisfaction as he finished reading a passage of Homer, but not of his shouting his delight, as he ramped through the meadows of Spenser, at some marvellous flower.
From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Andrew Cecil Bradley
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