Thesaurus results for DRAWLING

drawling

verb

present participle of drawl

as in speaking

to speak slowly with vowel sounds that are longer than usual He drawled his name in a Southern accent.

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Recent Examples of drawling 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 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

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Judges mingled with customers at a coffee shop before speaking at the domed, ornate Westmoreland County Courthouse.

— ABC News, ABC News, 10 July 2026
The mistake is believing there are only two visual entertainment languages worth speaking.

— Hernan Lopez, Variety, 10 July 2026

Definition of speaking

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The other was a tearing beauty, a creature so lovely that one look at her sent young men’s blood pressure skyward and set them to uttering wild, hoarse cries and tearing telephone directories apart with the bare hands.

— John Madson, Outdoor Life, 1 July 2026
All season, Shamea and Porsha have circled each other, barely uttering a direct word, but the tensions seep to the rest of the group, trickling into every interaction.

— Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 29 June 2026

Definition of uttering

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Despite the fireworks these teams have produced in the knockout stage, the odds are saying to expect a tight, low-scoring semifinal.

— Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 12 July 2026
Crump, the family’s attorney, cast doubt on the notion that Wells may have drowned – saying the teen was a strong athlete and knew how to swim.

— Holly Yan, CNN Money, 11 July 2026

Definition of saying

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Silent neutron stars at the center of supernova blast sites may actually be whispering softly, following the detection of faint radio emissions coming from one such object for the first time.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 6 July 2026
Hears the doctors whispering in the corner of the room about his decline.

— Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026

Definition of whispering

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Appropriately, the rich-sounding Ortofon SPU is a classic in its own right, launched in 1958 and has never been out of production.

— Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 8 July 2026
Pretending otherwise is just a nicer-sounding way of selling people the same beans in a different bag.

— Alli Kushner, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

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