drawn-out

Speech parts

1. drawn-out - Adjective

2. drawn-out - Verb

3. drawn-out - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

(used of speech) uttered slowly with prolonged vowels

relatively long in duration; tediously protracted

Alternative names

drawn out

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Examples

Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and detailed one. Walter Savage Landor

Life is too long to be good at C++ – if you had spent all that time to become good at it, you would essentially have to work with it, too, to get back the costs, and that would just be some long, drawn-out torture. Erik Naggum

People thought I was cocky because I didn't talk much. When I first turned pro, reporters asked me who was going to win. I'd say, 'I am' because it was the easier than giving some long, drawn-out answer. Ken Venturi

I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals. Lamorne Morris

To say that we're going to end countries or eradicate terrorism, and that it's a long war over many years, with many different instruments, suggests a much more complex and drawn-out conflict for which, I think, most Americans aren't prepared. Edward Said

In the past, I often found that when I reached out for a fast cure it led me down a slippery slope of more medications, hopeful dependence on the next prescription and ultimately a much longer drawn-out illness. Carre Otis

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