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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for drawls
  1. speaks
  2. shouts
  3. says
  4. utters
  5. whispers
  6. sounds
  7. voices
  8. tells
Verb
  • Cha-ching Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Jackson speaks during his rally at The Bibb Mill Event Center in Columbus last month.
    — Adam Beam, AJC.com, 22 Sep. 2026
  • McDonald's Chris Kempczinski speaks about fresh beef expansion at a McDonald's event in Oak Brook, Illinois.
    — Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of speaks
Verb
  • O’Kane shouts when Tom Brokaw announces that one of the men suspected of plotting the attack has been detained.
    — Jeff Goodell, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Fighters loyal to the Houthi authorities, shouts slogans during a rally to recruit more fighters, in Sanaa on September 10, 2026.
    — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of shouts
Verb
  • Sarah Patton, a Compass agent familiar with the buildings, says that a few years ago, when hundreds of units were being marketed downtown, some buildings were making deals, but that’s rare.
    — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Need to Know A police chief and travel agent on Tiktok says to only carry a crossbody bag on vacation in order to avoid becoming a target for pickpockets.
    — Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of says
Verb
  • Over the course of Decay, Godflesh‘s 10th and supposedly penultimate album, frontman Justin Broadrick utters less than 150 words total in just 42 minutes.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 24 Sep. 2026
  • And finally, if person A utters a needlessly wordy or detailed expression that is technically synonymous with a single term, person B may take A to implicate that the term does not apply to the person or event under discussion.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of utters
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • The whole concept sounds pretty cool, but this device is not quite a magic box.
    — Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 24 Sep. 2026
  • The engine sounds great whether at idle, on cold start when the electronic dumps open, and definitely under full throttle.
    — Joel Feder, The Drive, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of sounds
Verb
  • Larson headlined the Apple TV+’s Lessons in Chemistry, earning Emmy, SAG, Critics Choice, and Golden Globe nominations, and voices Rosalina in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.
    — Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 14 Sep. 2026
  • 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
Definition of voices
Verb
  • Speaking vulnerably, Sandy tells us about her journey, and she is moved when Aesha gives her a necklace with a pendant engraved with the number 36 and an anchor.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 29 Sep. 2026
  • His new novel, Vigil, tells the story of an angel tasked with helping a billionaire feel a degree of remorse for his actions before crossing over.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of tells

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“Drawls.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drawls. Accessed 30 Sep. 2026.

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