Drawled [verb]

Definition of Drawled:

lengthen, draw out

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Sentence/Example of Drawled:

The man did not live, nor could the occasion arrive, which would quicken his constitutional drawl.

He talked freely and intimately in a low, hesitating drawl that was not unpleasant to hear.

Except in long speeches she did not drawl; at times she spoke rapidly, snapping off sentences abruptly.

Again the note of melancholy, throbbing above the drawl––rising, indeed, into a wail.

He seemed to affect a drawl, and the grasp of his hand was not exactly hearty.

He spoke with a drawl, and Nat heard every word that he said.

When he spoke it was with the languid drawl of the Western plainsman.

It is rather a drawl that afflicts the ear than a nasal twang.

The men that night had spoken with an affected English drawl, and the girls were all "going abroad for the summer."

He spoke with a drawl and used expressions unknown in Lorraine and Champagne.