How to Use drawl in a Sentence

drawl

1 of 2 verb

• He drawled his name in a Southern accent.
• Each room is a chapter of a long, drawling story that will never quite end.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 18 Dec. 2023
• His New Orleans drawl floats over the speedy hi-hats and rapid drum pattern.
  — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 20 Dec. 2024
• No one lolls or drawls in this Streetcar; there’s no Vaseline on the lens.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2025
• These are texts that hide their depth under a thick layer of flatulence jokes, loud guitars or Texas drawls.
  — Arkansas Online, 14 Aug. 2025
• Her voice is often paired with someone rougher, lower, more likely to drawl out a rap in contrast to her rangy soprano.
  — Rubi Jones, Teen Vogue, 17 June 2018
• In truth, there is no single Southern accent, but rather a regionwide buffet of twangs and drawls.
  — Rick Rojas, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
• Johnny Cash drawled from a stereo speaker as prospective owners and foster parents drifted in and out of the building.
  — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Feb. 2023
• Short and spunky, with messy blonde hair, Marticek’s no-frills demeanor and Jersey accent stands out in a room full of Texas drawls.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Oct. 2017
• Muslet was born in Palestine but aggressively inhaled the idiom and drawled speech of his teenage years in Florida.
  — Matt Wolfe, New Republic, 2 Aug. 2017
• This might be what the song is supposed to be, but it’s crushed under the weight of the drawling vocals, plodding production, and an unnecessary final key change.
  — Kristen S. Hé, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
• Speaking of Southern drawls, what’s your favorite Southern expression?
  — Jenna Bush Hager, Southern Living, 20 Mar. 2013
• Speaking of Southern drawls, what’s your favorite Southern expression?
  — Jenna Bush Hager, Southern Living, 11 July 2017
• Their long hair, blues riffs, and Southern drawls have drawn consistent comparisons to Blackberry Smoke, but the band has a broader base in mind.
  — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2024
• His drawling, winking charm is front and center, and his attraction to our heroine feels both genuine and even quite protective, but his violent streak is so blasé as to be unnerving.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 7 June 2026
• The cracks in his burly voice draw out the nuances in the unexpected twists and turns of the lyrics, while Langley’s languid drawl heightens the tensions of desire that runs throughout the song.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
• The slow-rolling single with skittering drum machine beats mashed against both mens’ drawling vocals is of a piece with Jelly’s frequent lyrical focus on mental health and his battles with substance use.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 24 Jan. 2025
• On The Diary, Scaface's flow has slowed considerably, with his Southern drawl creeping into his delivery.
  — Lance Scott Walker, Chron, 2 May 2023
• But Johnson would love to keep going with the murder-solving escapades of his drawling detective Benoit Blanc, played by Daniel Craig.
  — Alex Ritman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025
• The Hall of Fame coach whose folksy drawl belied a fiery on-court demeanor that put Maryland on the college basketball map and enabled him to rebuild several struggling programs.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2024
• Platt played up the comedy of the quintessential Jewish outsider in a land of Confederate memorials and drawling manners.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2025
• The unofficial grand dame of Americana returns after a 2020 stroke that took the guitar from her hands but left her vocals as sassy, vulnerable and distinctively drawled as ever.
  — Greg Carannante, Sun Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2024
• Daniel Craig stars as Benoit Blanc, a Southern-drawling Hercule Poirot-style private detective who helps a wealthy family uncover the truth behind the death of their beloved patriarch (Christopher Plummer).
  — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Feb. 2026

drawl

2 of 2 noun

• Matthew did the scene with the drawl.
  — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2025
• Matthew did the scene with the drawl.
  — Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 20 Oct. 2025
• Hey Dude is so laid back, even its name greets you in a sleepy drawl.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2022
• Mike explains in his trademark slow drawl.
  — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Jan. 2026
• Then Ansari dials down his loud and nasal drawl to sotto voce.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 13 July 2019
• Rolling off the tongue well when spoken with a drawl is an absolute must.
  — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 4 Sep. 2019
• His voice carries a hint of a drawl, an echo of his Texas childhood.
  — Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 14 June 2022
• Richards, who grew up in a small town in eastern Texas, speaks with a soft Texas drawl.
  — Katherine Long, The Seattle Times, 22 Oct. 2018
• Brosnan speaks with an accent that’s a fusion of his own silvery brogue and a gruff drawl.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
• By day the cicadas hammer out their battery-gun drawl; at night dogs bark in the village.
  — Melinda Stevens, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Sep. 2020
• Lewis and Smith are there to welcome them with the warm drawl of their native Texas.
  — Conrad Swanson, The Denver Post, 22 Jan. 2020
• These days, the 27-year-old rhymes with a drawl untraceable to any region.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2023
• Johnson, who has bright eyes and a Georgia drawl, wore a paisley blouse and blue capri pants.
  — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
• His best impression was a gravelly drawl drawn out just so, laced with low-key menace.
  — Kevin Scarbinsky | , al, 18 Mar. 2023
• But Clark, with his movie star good looks, his sweet drawl and twinkling sense of humor, captured our hearts.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 4 June 2018
• And side dishes like macaroni and cheese shout with more of a southern drawl than a Texas twang.
  — Adrian Miller, Bon Appetit Magazine, 1 July 2026
• And Sharpe’s down-home humor and southern drawl have worked well with Bayless.
  — Langston Wertz Jr., charlotteobserver, 2 Apr. 2018
• At the window, a drag queen in a bouffant and a gingham apron greets patrons in a slow Texas drawl.
  — Melissa Kravitz, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Oct. 2018
• His speech takes on a charming folksy drawl and ramblin’ manner fitting for a cowboy loving night.
  — Robert G. Eccles, Forbes, 29 May 2021
• Beatrice would move through the crowd all night, her soft voice (still sporting a Texas drawl) causing people to lean in.
  — oregonlive, 19 Feb. 2021
• In reaccenting the word, Latto charges it with her Southern drawl.
  — Adam Bradley, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021
• Elrod is in his mid-60s, tall with a white beard and deliberative drawl.
  — Lydia Depillis, ProPublica, 6 Jan. 2020
• Amber Remer of Harrison said the story is full of words to draw out her drawl.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 8 Dec. 2019
• During his segment on the show, the actor also used his deep southern drawl to give popular pop lyrics a makeover.
  — Jessica Leigh Mattern, Country Living, 9 Oct. 2018
• The Black rodeo clown who stole the show with his jokes and exaggerated Southern drawl.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2022
• When the transplants all got talking, the drawls were as sticky as Carolina barbecue sauce.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 22 July 2019
• There is nothing more soothing than the sound of Owen Wilson’s Texan drawl.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 14 July 2021
• Imogene + Willie is bringing its southern drawl to the Big Apple this week.
  — Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 4 Nov. 2025
• The internet is another cause of the dilution of the southern drawl among young people.
  — Annie Joy Williams, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2026
• Braly, who grew up on a cattle ranch in Ada, speaks with an Oklahoma drawl and has a white beard that tumbles down to his chest.
  — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 16 June 2022