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drawl

verb as in lengthen, draw out

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The drawls are as grand as the morning sunrises and the evening sunsets over marshland, the swaying patches of brown and green grass cradling both mud and smaller tributaries of water.

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David has a Southern drawl and charm that informs his character.

Still, a tight-jawed smile, wild eyes and a southern California drawl remind me of Matthew McConaughey.

She raps with a tightly-wound drawl, one that, to American ears, feels tone-deaf not musically, but socially.

Boyd is tall and thickly muscled and speaks softly in a Piedmont drawl.

When the crew travels underwater, they discover a land where the mermen and merwomen speak a Southern American drawl.

The man did not live, nor could the occasion arrive, which would quicken his constitutional drawl.

He talked freely and intimately in a low, hesitating drawl that was not unpleasant to hear.

Except in long speeches she did not drawl; at times she spoke rapidly, snapping off sentences abruptly.

Again the note of melancholy, throbbing above the drawl––rising, indeed, into a wail.

He seemed to affect a drawl, and the grasp of his hand was not exactly hearty.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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