[
US
/ˈdɹɔɫ/
]
[ UK /dɹˈɔːl/ ]
[ UK /dɹˈɔːl/ ]
NOUN
- a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels
VERB
-
lengthen and slow down or draw out
drawl one's vowels
How To Use drawl In A Sentence
- Big Brother will now know every financial tidbit about you, every ATM withdrawl, account deposit, creditcard charge, what you bought .... Senate's Wall Street bill in homestretch
- On a recent morning, Evers steered his pickup truck through a Central California almond grove, his drawling sales pitch at the ready.
- I thought we were playing hardball,’ Ruth drawls and Faulkner frowns, appearing to be gravely insulted.
- His wide Dundonian drawl also arguably makes this the most incomprehensible album since The Music Fix
- And her accent, which had once sounded so alluringly foreign, had flattened into a quasi-American drawl.
- Let me check one more time and get back to you,’ Jocelyn drawled and with exaggerated movements, she resurveyed the contents of the bag.
- She did not back down, instead she continued drawling, ‘My patience is wearing thin, so follow closely and remain quiet if you would like to know the way to your room.’
- Yes, ma'am," drawled the sheriff, "in them history days things was fixed up to excuse animal doin's, kind of neater and easier and more becomin 'than they are now. Snow-Blind
- He has a deep voice and he drawls slightly.
- Instead of the melodious tones of an Irish brogue, the exaggerated drawl of an angry young man spat from the earpiece.