Example Sentences

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Sitting in the university’s performing-arts library, he traced the arcs of the notes with his fingers, posing rhetorical questions in his deep, faintly drawly voice: “What kind of emotion did the composer want?”

From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2024

He riffed on his newly deeper, drawly voice while hosting “Saturday Night Live,” and, on Tuesday, the jokes kept rolling in on Twitter after he accepted his best actor award during the Globes ceremony.

From Washington Post • Jan. 11, 2023

He was a low-key, drawly and arch villain–depending whether that worked for you, he was either laid-back or tired.

From Time • Dec. 5, 2014

Written by drawly, dormousy Finis Farr, directed by Edward A. Byron, veteran radio showman, Mr. D. A. is now the most popular whodunit on the air.

From Time Magazine Archive

She heard his deep, drawly voice urging the unwisdom of sleeping with calked boots on, and Beaton's hiccupy response.

From Big Timber A Story of the Northwest by Sinclair, Bertrand W.