verb
- spoke in a slow, prolonged manner with lengthened vowel sounds
Usage: past tense of drawl
Examples
- He drawled his words with a thick Southern accent.
- She drawled a lazy ‘hello’ from the porch swing.
- The cowboy drawled his response to the sheriff’s question.
- He drawled out each syllable as if he had all day.
- The actor drawled his lines to sound more authentic.
- She drawled her vowels in an exaggerated manner.