drawl

After everyone had discussed Ross's demise, she piped up in her famous Texan drawl: "Is Ross gone?"

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

“Noooo,” Sen. Thom Tillis said in his North Carolina drawl when I asked if Trump had given him a pair.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

As the car pulls into a parking garage, Blunt cracks jokes and does impressions, including one of her security guy Pat’s Southern drawl.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

Luiz, a French cab driver ferrying festivalgoers around Cannes, does good impersonations of both a Long Island accent and a Southern drawl, said he loves talking with Americans.

From Salon ● May 22, 2026

“Not everyone,” the girl observed in the same detached drawl, “seems to appreciate the accommodations at the bunkers.”

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

“I could use a man don’t mind breaking the rules,” he drawls in an accent far removed from the Montana setting.

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2024

"Greetings in the name of his majesty," he drawls and, suddenly, it's like Marley is in the room.

From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2024

Wilson said no one in the music industry has told her to smooth out her drawls and y’alls, but she said plenty of people on social media question whether her accent is exaggerated.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 7, 2022

“I don’t know what you want me to do,” he drawls back to me, while lolling his head up to stare at his tinted solar roof.

From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2021

“Now, Jane, that's what I call an entrance,” the sheriff drawls.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

"Sorry to the people who were expecting Patchwork," he drawled after the song ended.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2025

Gibbons drawled in the most famous 30-second spot touting Grape-Nuts as the "back-to-nature" cereal.

From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2023

“I got nothing — n-o-t-h-i-n-g,” he drawled to the reporters waiting outside the Democrats’ closed door lunchroom Thursday as it became clear there would be no Christmas deal.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 16, 2021

Hunt, the oil tycoon and father of Lamar, when asked about his son’s $1-million loss in running the early AFL, “I guess,” he drawled, “he’ll only be able to run that league for 150 years.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2020

“Well,” she drawled, sighing, “I guess folks just have to love each other naturally. You can’t make ’em.”

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

With Richards’s gnarled, withering guitar lines and Jagger drawling and declaiming, there’s no mistaking the band behind “Foreign Tongues.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

Platt played up the comedy of the quintessential Jewish outsider in a land of Confederate memorials and drawling manners.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2025

No matter what role he took on in a career that lasted more than five decades, Gambon was always instantly recognizable by the deep and drawling tones of his voice.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 28, 2023

Yes, this film isn’t some Beatles-inspired riff but a sequel to the twisty 2019 romp “Knives Out,” which introduced Daniel Craig as the drawling detective Benoit Blanc.

From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2022

“What I want to know,” he says, drawling out each word.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson