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Anderson’s Billy steps out of the shadows with a full face of femme fatale makeup and a syrupy Dolly Parton drawl, promptly serving Kris enough fried chicken to feed a bobsled team.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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

But when he says it, his Southern drawl is not the only reason that it sounds different.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

Patricia Eddings, an expert in trace evidence, is short, with fiery red hair and a cheery Mississippi drawl.

From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026

Mother asked, using a Texas drawl and doing his best to project FBI cool and calm.

From "City Spies" by James Ponti

As a public speaker, he drawls out short speeches punctuated with University of Georgia football catchphrases.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 9, 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

“Saaaauce,” he drawls to his wife as he gazes upon his unwitting targets.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2022

Hunsecker, the voracious, rat-a-tat newspaperman of “Sweet Smell of Success,” who sees a brawl and drawls, “I love this dirty town.”

From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2021

None of the girls jokes or drawls when mentioning him.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

"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

Hunt, the oil tycoon and father of Lamar, when asked about his son’s $1-million loss in running the early AFL, “I guess,” he drawled, “he’ll only be able to run that league for 150 years.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2020

“I had to work,” he drawled with impatience.

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

He asked easy, drawling questions about me, his other son, his wife, and he laughed, amused, when I informed him of their destinies.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright