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

The airplanes from the field are droning in the sleepy air above his head.

From Test Pilot by Collins, Jimmy

All day long the wheels are droning, turning, Their wind comes in our faces, Till our hearts turn, and our heads with pulses burning; And the walls turn in their places!

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor

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 Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August)