Example Sentences

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I know," he will drawl, "that you don't want to hear this on a hot day.

From Time Magazine Archive

The merchant sailor will drawl the blackguard "I'll go no more a-roving" to an air like a prolonged wail; the fisherman sings "Home, beautiful home" as a lovely waltz.

From A Dream of the North Sea by Runciman, James

What he invented I will recite, that you may see how senseless it was; and I will drawl it out very slow to imitate them.

From Cast Away in the Cold An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures, as Related by Captain John Hardy, Mariner by Hayes, I. I. (Isaac Israel)