The phrase "are drawn out" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is prolonged or extended over a period of time, often in a tedious or excessive manner.
Example: "The meeting was unnecessarily long, and many of the discussions were drawn out without reaching any conclusions."
Alternatives: "are prolonged" or "are extended".
**Episode No. 2 ** "Blessed Are the Poor" The inhabitants of Laramie are drawn out to a local canyon to hear Jesus Jones speak.
For the most part, though, the gags are drawn out and not particularly original.
Conversations, monologues – many of them in Boris's broken and extremely tedious-to-read Russian accent – are drawn out over pages.
The smoky, paprika-rich flavours are drawn out as the sausages soften in the oniony tomato sauce.
"One of the things that I certainly will want to be doing here... is to see that these stories are drawn out and told too.
If blacks do turn out in record numbers, it would almost certainly be because they are drawn out by their devotion to Obama, a devotion he's counting on.
Cassini obtained a spectacular video record of this process, in which complex wavelike bands of particles are drawn out from the F ring as the shepherds pass it.
Her death throes are drawn out and hilariously hyperbolic, owing more to Bugs Bunny than to any other performer I can think of.
Chris - a different Chris - played a range of instruments, including a zither.' Tennant is softly spoken, with a mild Tyneside accent, and certain words are drawn out with pointed emphasis.
The moral possibilities of medical practice are drawn out, without shying away from the risks that doctors such as Sassall run in identifying so closely with those in mental and physical pain.
Their implausible, cutesy-poo meeting and its sentimental payoff are drawn out in a preposterous subplot in which Sam, who could face charges of kidnapping, lets the boy, Rasheen, stay in his apartment after feebly trying to deliver him to the proper authorities.
