drawl

But then I hear a Southern drawl in my head.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

“Noooo,” Sen. Thom Tillis said in his North Carolina drawl when I asked if Trump had given him a pair.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

Luiz, a French cab driver ferrying festivalgoers around Cannes, does good impersonations of both a Long Island accent and a Southern drawl, said he loves talking with Americans.

From Salon ● May 22, 2026

Byrne has said she has a go-to phrase -- "Patty hired 24-hour security for Katie" -- when she finds herself struggling to summon the Yankee drawl.

From Barron's ● Mar. 5, 2026

Seaborg joined with Joseph Kennedy, a newly appointed chemistry instructor with the gangly physique of a scarecrow and a gentle drawl that proclaimed his North Texas origins, and brought the plan to Ernest.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

“I could use a man don’t mind breaking the rules,” he drawls in an accent far removed from the Montana setting.

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2024

Wilson said no one in the music industry has told her to smooth out her drawls and y’alls, but she said plenty of people on social media question whether her accent is exaggerated.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 7, 2022

"Okay, I've been practicing my longest and loudest scream," drawls Rhian Teesdale in Wet Leg's scathing indie-pop anthem Ur Mum.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2022

“To have a garden like this is insane,” Avent drawls.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 11, 2019

“Now, Jane, that's what I call an entrance,” the sheriff drawls.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

"Sorry to the people who were expecting Patchwork," he drawled after the song ended.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2025

Gibbons drawled in the most famous 30-second spot touting Grape-Nuts as the "back-to-nature" cereal.

From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2023

“I got nothing — n-o-t-h-i-n-g,” he drawled to the reporters waiting outside the Democrats’ closed door lunchroom Thursday as it became clear there would be no Christmas deal.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 16, 2021

Winer’s delivery — drawled yet quick, with a smoker’s rasp and acerbic tone — was nothing like the fast-talking slam poets of the era, instead hewing closer to the dry delivery of her mentor, Burroughs.

From New York Times ● Aug. 30, 2021

“No’m,” he drawled, afraid of what she might mean.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

With Richards’s gnarled, withering guitar lines and Jagger drawling and declaiming, there’s no mistaking the band behind “Foreign Tongues.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

Platt played up the comedy of the quintessential Jewish outsider in a land of Confederate memorials and drawling manners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2025

No matter what role he took on in a career that lasted more than five decades, Gambon was always instantly recognizable by the deep and drawling tones of his voice.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 28, 2023

Yes, this film isn’t some Beatles-inspired riff but a sequel to the twisty 2019 romp “Knives Out,” which introduced Daniel Craig as the drawling detective Benoit Blanc.

From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2022

“This is absolutely fascinating, Mr. Ai,” said the host, Commensal Yegey, a delicate, dapper, drawling fellow with keen eyes.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin