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synonyms for drawl

  • chant
  • drone
  • extend
  • intone
  • nasalize
  • prolong
  • protract
  • utter
  • drag out
  • pronounce slowly
See also synonyms for: drawling
On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to drawl, such as: chant, drone, extend, intone, nasalize, and prolong.

antonyms for drawl

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  • abbreviate
  • curtail
  • shorten
  • clip
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How to use drawl in a sentence

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.
A VACATION TOWN PROMISES REST AND RELAXATION. THE WATER KNOWS THE TRUTH.NNEKA M. OKONAAUGUST 26, 2021VOX
The man did not live, nor could the occasion arrive, which would quicken his constitutional drawl.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSON
He talked freely and intimately in a low, hesitating drawl that was not unpleasant to hear.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPIN
Except in long speeches she did not drawl; at times she spoke rapidly, snapping off sentences abruptly.
A HOOSIER CHRONICLEMEREDITH NICHOLSON
Again the note of melancholy, throbbing above the drawl––rising, indeed, into a wail.
THE CRUISE OF THE SHINING LIGHTNORMAN DUNCAN
He seemed to affect a drawl, and the grasp of his hand was not exactly hearty.
FRANK MERRIWELL'S PURSUITBURT L. STANDISH
He spoke with a drawl, and Nat heard every word that he said.
FROM FARM TO FORTUNEHORATIO ALGER JR.
When he spoke it was with the languid drawl of the Western plainsman.
THE HIGHGRADERWILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE
It is rather a drawl that afflicts the ear than a nasal twang.
AMERICAN SKETCHESCHARLES WHIBLEY
The men that night had spoken with an affected English drawl, and the girls were all "going abroad for the summer."
THE WHITE SHIELDMYRTLE REED
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO DRAWL

  • bombinate
  • buzz
  • chant
  • drawl
  • hum
  • intone
  • nasalize
  • purr
  • sound
  • strum
  • thrum
  • vibrate
  • whirr
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