(v. i.) To speak with slow and lingering utterance, from laziness, lack of spirit, affectation, etc.
(n.) A lengthened, slow monotonous utterance.
Example Sentences:
(1) I think, in all honestly, if I could be Bradley Whitford I would be very, very happy.” He becomes almost drawlingly dreamy, rolling his “r”s as he leans against the warm oolite cliffs of this Jurassic Coast, until rudely interrupted by me, asking whether there’s talk of a Broadchurch 3 .
(2) As the Big Dog waltzed through a thicket of policy points, dropping drawl-inflected catchphrases, the teleprompter stuttered.
(3) "We have hit upon things here that really do matter – that haven't been given due consideration," he would bark in his distinctive, rapid-fire baritone southern drawl.
(4) Using a simple line-up of strummed guitar, bass and drums, he drawled, and then sang, his way through a story about a train driver fooling the inspector on a toll gate outside New Orleans.
(5) "It's not even lack of progress," she says in her low, ironic drawl, "it's a downward slide towards the apocalypse.
(6) Their hard, stuttering tone is a long way from Gucci's Atlanta drawl, but the juxtaposition is electric – a kind of east London crunk.
(7) Theorizing, research and speculation reached a fever pitch, and then a minor character, last seen cutting grass way back in episode three, drawled “My family’s been here a long, lo-ong, time,” and more appeared.
(8) Abramson has one of the thickest New York accents you'll ever hear, a nasal drawl in which the vowels are stretched to breaking point like an elastic band.
(9) "Of course I'd like to sit around and chat, but someone's listening in," drawls Yorke.
(10) She has played Alien: Isolation, of course ("The flame-thrower is very good," she drawls) and is intrigued by the immersive story-telling possibilities of the medium.
(11) A pin is fine but what woman doesn’t love a necklace?” she said, in a faint Texan drawl.
(12) She recalls one lunch with a literary editor of the Times who "got there and said [she puts on a patrician drawl]: 'I told all the girls in the office I'm going out with a Virago today!'
(13) One might expect, however, that after the death of his wife and his own health scare, Clifford would have a new perspective on life, but it is a suggestion he readily bats away: "Naaaah," he drawls, "not at all.
(14) I suspect that like many who owed their careers to Lord Beaverbrook, Alex had picked up a hint of the baron's stately drawl.
(15) Frost's voice never ceased to intrigue: he developed something called the Frost Drawl, a way of speaking that became slower and whose clarity diminished as it extended its global reach.
(16) "Old fogeys like me don't email, darlin'," he drawls at the cattle baron's ball, just in case we missed the point.
(17) Self-deprecating An Arkansas native, Engskov speaks with the same southern drawl as Clinton, and does a smooth line in self-deprecation that belies his intelligence: "I'm from Arkansas so it takes me a little time to catch up," he says at one point.
(18) This is all delivered in her rich, husky 60-a-day drawl, although it turns out the 60 a day has just become four a day after a week-long stay in a health farm, and "you'll have to forgive me because I only got back last night and I'm feeling quite peculiar".
(19) 'I wondered why would someone make such a radical change in their lives if they were basically a good person, a non-criminal' Gilligan, who is 45 but speaks with an avuncular southern drawl that makes him sound 20 years older, made his name working on The X Files .
(20) He even had a catchphrase of sorts, his "hello, good evening and welcome" drawled by mimics on both sides of the Atlantic.