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
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
The congregation sit at ease while the parson does the praying for them, and while they are droning the long-drawn-out chorales, he retires into a little wooden box just big enough to hold him.
From Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth
Outside the open window the bees are droning past, the butterflies flit from flower to flower, and nature seems to cry to the little hearts, "Come and play with me."
From Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. by F. B. (Frederick Brotherton) Meyer
