drawn

IPA: drˈɔn

adjective

  • Appearing tired and unwell, as from stress; haggard.
  • Of a game: undecided; having no definite winner and loser.
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Examples of "drawn" in Sentences

  • Competitors include LHPH, a name drawn from the industry term Lease Here Pay Here.
  • It is a word drawn from the old French fur trade for engagés who served their time and went free.
  • We should not be ethnocentric, a term drawn from anthropology, which tells us more about the meaning of openness.
  • The Japanese call it nemawashi nimah-wash-ee, a word drawn from the practice of bonzai, and which means “preparing to plant.”
  • After Vincente and the tech had left, Chase entered, his expression drawn, his ink-black hair still wet from a recent shower.
  • The only difference between true tapestry and drawn work, an example of which is here given, is, that the one is done on a warp that has not before been woven upon, and the other on a warp from which the weft threads have been _drawn_.
  • Mr. Feldman acknowledges these differences — starting with his title drawn from a Frankfurter law clerk 's characterization of the Supreme Court as "nine scorpions in a bottle" — but tries to celebrate all four "great justices" equally, as if their negative estimations of each other were mere personal foibles.

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