Example Sentences
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Whatever engine droning and snoozing you might remember from earlier CVT systems has been banished to the Phantom Zone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
“Ups & Downs” is an instrumental with a droning keyboard—perhaps a harmonium—along with a clarinet and clattering percussion that sounds like a drum kit being slowly unpacked from its case.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
"It is a very low humming, droning, pulsating noise. It's incredibly intrusive and distressing," she said.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2025
He is so incredible with Trane, but he has this droning depth of this like voodoo trance that he gets into on the bass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025
We listened and listened, but all we could hear was the droning tones of the noise we had made die away in the thick timber.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
