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.
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Arkansas Online, 14 Aug. 2025
Arkansas Online, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for drawls
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Born in New York to Nigerian parents, Folarin Balogun speaks with a British accent, courtesy of a childhood largely forged in England.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
13 June 2026
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OpenAI Ceo Sam Altman speaks to journalists after meeting with US House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on June 3, 2026.—
Ashley Capoot,
CNBC,
13 June 2026
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The emotional high point comes at the bridge, when the song transforms into a stomp-clap rhythm and Rodrigo shouts the lyrics with abandon.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
12 June 2026
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Patchett shouts out fellow authors in the novel, including George Saunders, Paul Murray and Kiran Desai.—
Erik Pedersen,
Oc Register,
2 June 2026
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The company behind the data center, DC BLOX, says it is committed to addressing any issues.—
Skyler Henry,
CBS News,
12 June 2026
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Senate Bill 884, also proposed by Umberg, draws a zone around polling places and says that ICE officers may not be present at the polls to interfere with voting.—
Evelyn Ronan,
Sacbee.com,
12 June 2026
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Halfway through, Mando is captured by Clone Wars’ bounty hunter Embo, who was voiced by Filoni on the show but never utters so much as a single line of dialogue here.—
Savannah Salazar,
Vulture,
22 May 2026
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Yet Cornelius Krull, the patriarch, speaks only a German dialect and never utters more than two words.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
14 May 2026
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At the top of her new, aptly titled short film Confessions II, Madonna whispers what at first might land as an obvious summary of her four-decade career.—
Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 June 2026
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The tea that Housewives have on each other, especially in Atlanta, is a never-ending cesspool of rumors, blogs, Instagram DMs, and whispers through a complex network of girls and gays.—
Ile-Ife Okantah,
Vulture,
25 May 2026
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Playing music that sounds like nothing else in Western pop music, the duo has, at press time, racked up more than 15 million views on that video alone.—
Adam Kovac,
Scientific American,
10 June 2026
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If that sounds like your kind of scare, here are eight other liminal horror films to lose yourself in.—
Irenie Forshaw,
TheWeek,
10 June 2026
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Alongside the songstress, other attendees included main cast Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack and Greta Lee, who voices main antagonist Lilypad in the film.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
9 June 2026
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Johnny Yong Bosch voices Dante, Robbie Daymond is Dante’s nephew Vergil, and Scout Taylor-Compton voices Lady on the TV series.—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
4 June 2026
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Sam McDowell tells us how one dinner 20 years ago with Illig, Neal Patterson and Lamar Hunt changed the future of soccer in Kansas City.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
12 June 2026
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Make Way for Ducklings, the iconic children’s book by Robert McCloskey, tells the story of a family of ducks that make a home in the garden’s lagoon.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
12 June 2026
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“Drawls.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drawls. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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