Sentence examples for drawn from inspiring English sources

The word "drawn" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which someone or something is taken away or pulled back, as in this example: "The curtains were drawn to keep out the light."

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drawn

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Inflection of draw

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The winning numbers drawn Wednesday night were 05, 25, 30, 58, 59 and Powerball 32.

The battle lines are being drawn – in and outside Greece.

Officers have a strong DNA profile but have so far drawn a blank on the national database.

There was a misplaced confidence drawn from the experience of 2010 when a Stakhanovite get-out-the-vote (GOTV) operation saved scores of seats that David Cameron should have bagged, given the national swing to the Tories.

The worst-case scenario occurred; Nadal and No1 Novak Djokovic were drawn in the same quarter.

Now the Home Office is once again increasing the number of local authorities involved, alongside controversial plans to place a duty on universities, schools and local authorities to "prevent people from being drawn into terrorism", through an amendment to the counter-terror and security bill, which is at the Lords report stage.

These were the precursors to the juggernaut now known simply as the Islamic State, which has, under Bagdhadi's command, overrun much of the west and centre of the country and eastern Syria, and drawn the US military back to a deeply destabilised region less than three years after it left vowing never to return.

He said hundreds of young men like him, who were drawn to a Sunni jihad after the US invasion, do not believe that the latest manifestation of the decade-long war remains true to its origins.

As soon as you arrive on the Amalfi coast it's easy to see why high rollers, writers and film stars have been drawn to this idyllic stretch of coast for the past 200 years.

It has a picture on the front drawn in the same dispassionate way as a Ford Escort would have been – it's really, really great.

Politicians have cottoned on to this in the abstract, but they are more reluctant to be drawn on where these houses should be.

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