Example Sentences

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Why," she drawlingly asks her sister-in-law, "did y' give dawgs' names to all your kiddies?

From The Guardian • Mar. 28, 2011

"Don't you want a guide?" he asked, drawlingly.

From The Burial of the Guns by Page, Thomas Nelson

Saying this he whistled drawlingly and in a moment the gigantic mastiff dashed among the camels.

From In Desert and Wilderness by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

In your absence," returned Hedwig, drawlingly, "somebody had to preside, for neither the master, the old gentleman nor M. Antonino take the head of the dinner-table with the best grace.

From The Son of Clemenceau by Dumas fils, Alexandre

"By whom, pray?" put in the saucy Jennie drawlingly.

From Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier by Emerson, Alice B.