drone
noun
the male of the honeybee and other bees, stingless and making no honey.
droningly
-
a word derived from
drone.
Example Sentences
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This sequence — consisting of a droningly repetitive jingle, garish title cards and numerous stills of Hogan in the ring — lasts an almost interminable 45 seconds, ramping up in fanfare as it goes.
From New York Times ● Nov. 29, 2018
The anticipated Oscarizables have mainly ranged from the blandly enjoyable to the droningly disastrous.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 11, 2015
Their game was innate, instinctive, off-the-cuff, carefree, and never droningly analytical.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 11, 2013
Ellmann was sedulously, reductively, droningly biographical in his approach to Yeats.
From Slate ● Dec. 27, 2012
Mrs. Hopkins discoursed droningly of the dinner smells from the flat across the hall.
From The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million by O. Henry
