Thesaurus results for DRAWLS

drawls

verb

present tense third-person singular of drawl

as in speaks

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 drawls These are texts that hide their depth under a thick layer of flatulence jokes, loud guitars or Texas drawls. — Arkansas Online, 14 Aug. 2025

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Formats range from small to large, so shop for a size and print that speaks to you and your wardrobe.

— Andrea Zendejas, Vogue, 4 Sep. 2026
Apparently Green’s out-of-state badge speaks louder than their decidedly un-cop-like dress.

— Chris Klimek, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of speaks

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That video shows three boys scrubbing the floor and walls of a room in the school with rags as Morrison shouts commands and admonishments.

— Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 24 July 2026
In the background, an adult voice shouts at the bear, helping to scare the animal off.

— Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026

Definition of shouts

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In Japanese, the hero utters the name of the series to a villain in a parting one liner.

— Gene Park, Washington Post, 23 Aug. 2026
At the film’s end, Abbie Cornish as Fanny hears secondhand about Keats’s death and utters a cry that is almost too much to bear — a cry that feels too real.

— Sarah Chihaya, Vulture, 16 July 2026

Definition of utters

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The Moon, tied to intuition, moves through your 12th House of Solitude and conjoins healing Chiron there, opening gentle space to notice what your heart whispers.

— Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2026
From the United States losing in the round of 16 after the whole Folarin Balogun saga, to Argentina eventually going down to Spain in the final, the outcomes on the field in the end minimized whispers about potential FIFA meddling.

— Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026

Definition of whispers

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If all this sounds familiar, that’s because last year’s doc by David Osit, Predators, covered much of the same ground very effectively.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026
The kindergarten his daughter attends must move the children to a shelter whenever an air-raid alert sounds.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of sounds

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Vasarhelyi, seemingly a less hands-on presence in this project, voices a few more misgivings, at one stage pointedly asking her husband how many people who have previously been guests at their dinner table are now dead.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
Actor Denis Leary voices the restaurant’s creator, Joe Baum, drawn from decades of archival recordings.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026

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