drawly
- 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
A drawly, short-order helping of war sketches that simmers down to sweet essence of molasses.
From Time Magazine Archive
The voices were two, one a sweet but somewhat drawly female soprano, the other, a raucous, loud, overmastering shout, that almost drowned the utterance of its companion.
From Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by Campbell, John
