drawl
verb (used with or without object)
to say or speak in a slow manner, usually prolonging the vowels.
drawly
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a word derived from
drawl.
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
Jim Wiley is a drawly Virginian, and sells his yearlings at Saratoga for enormous prices.
From Time Magazine Archive
She is a full-blown, black-eyed, dreamy, drawly creature, opulent of figure, white of skin, and red of lip.
From American Adventures A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' by Wallace Morgan
