drawled

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of Drawl

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For all his derogation, he truly believed in the modern, as subversive of established values, a mine or fuse laid under the terrain of the virtuous; the words, modern, secular, experimental, were drawled out by him in a seductive, blandishing tone, like a veiled erotic invitation. Mary McCarthy

My money's on the lady," he drawled. "You don't tame a vixen, you just travel in her wake. Lora Leigh

One example is English "bleat" for the sheep noise: in medieval times it was pronounced approximately as "blairt" (but without an R-component), or "blet" with the vowel drawled, which is much more accurate as onomatopoeia than the modern pronunciation. Source: Internet

At last he stood up, took the remote out of Paul's hand, and drawled with mock severity, "If you guys are gonna just sit around. Source: Internet

The album also began the subgenre of G-funk, a slow, drawled form of hip hop that dominated the rap charts for some time. Source: Internet

In Texas, where I’d gone to talk to state Chamber of Commerce executives, one of the delegates drawled at me “So you’re the guy who’s come down to tell us what to do with our property.” Source: Internet