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Example sentences for: drawl
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His Texas drawl and folksy eloquence are overpowering--like drinking a gallon of sweet, warm cream.
"Come on, Kitty," he says in his soft Southern drawl, "A little toddy's not going to hurt you."
Through the rest we get Lewis' sensitive transcriptions of "a booming hick drawl," culminating in a contrast to Jim Barksdale, who, we are told, has escaped hickdom--he "retains only enough of the piney woods patter to offer a passing imitation of a good ol' boy when he needs to."
The tale of an astronaut (Johnny Depp with a drawl) who comes back from a space accident somehow different is cut from the same paranoid cloth as Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), I Married a Monster From Outer Space (1958) and, midway, Rosemary's Baby (1968).
He would entertain the Post newsroom (where I worked) with his stories--his rough, sonorous voice; his slow drawl; his erudition and love affair with the language; his cigarette ash building up until it rolled, unnoticed by him, down the front of his shirt.