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drawing on

VERB

use to advantage

Synonyms

WEAK

effect employ exploit extract fall back on have recourse to make use of rely on require take from

Example Sentences

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The English group’s second album is a work of unclassifiable but bracingly original music, drawing on post-rock, jazz, folk, reggae and more.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026

Blockaders even developed a legal argument to justify their actions, drawing on the common law defense of necessity, which allows someone to break a law to achieve a greater moral good.

From Slate • Jun. 2, 2026

The Killik & Co 'A Seed in Time' Garden, designed by Baz Grainger, offers a calm and restorative space for families while drawing on Britain's wetland heritage and the realities of climate change.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

In their research, economists Philippe Aghion and Simon Bunel, drawing on prior general-purpose technology waves, estimate somewhere between 0.8 and 1.3 percentage points annually.

From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026

He hurried out into the middle room, drawing on his blue outer trousers as he went, and knotting about the fullness at his waist his girdle of blue cotton cloth.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck