drawl

After everyone had discussed Ross's demise, she piped up in her famous Texan drawl: "Is Ross gone?"

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Bardem worked with renowned dialect coach Tim Monich to infuse his speech with a hint of a Southern drawl, aware that his character didn’t have to sound like a native speaker.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 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

Sam Sloan was a reed-thin stockbroker, with a slight Virginian drawl.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

"Greetings in the name of his majesty," he drawls and, suddenly, it's like Marley is in the room.

From BBC ● Jan. 25, 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

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

“I don’t know what you want me to do,” he drawls back to me, while lolling his head up to stare at his tinted solar roof.

From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2021

He drawls; each word, formed reluctantly and framed in a cattle- country accent, lasts awhile.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

"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

“Wanna see my scar?” she drawled after the semifinal, pointing to the ice pack on her knee, when I asked about her near-miracle recovery.

From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2020

“I’m sure you’ll work that out,” drawled Ripred.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins

A minute of research, or just an honest accounting that nearly all his early rockabilly hits were cover songs, puts the lie to the idea that Elvis was a drawling bolt from the blue.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

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

“What I want to know,” he says, drawling out each word.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson