drone
noun
the male of the honeybee and other bees, stingless and making no honey.
are droning
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present progressiveof drone.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 3, 2011
Already it has booked 55 conventions for the year, and conventioneers from anthropologists to acupuncturists are droning speeches by day and dropping money by night.
From Time Magazine Archive
All day long, the wheels are droning, turning— Their wind comes in our faces!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 by Various
The bees are droning among the forget-me-nots that grow along shore, and the swans arch their necks in the limpid stream.
From The Making of an American by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
Sic bobbing, and flinging, and whirling, While fiddlers are making their din; And pipers are droning and skirling, As loud as the roar o' the linn.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
