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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The anticipated Oscarizables have mainly ranged from the blandly enjoyable to the droningly disastrous.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 11, 2015
Every night the three gather onstage before the show and do a vocal warm-up, repeating the words “hip bath” as their voices drop from squeakily high to droningly low.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2014
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
—Her fi-an-say inside," the droningly indistinguishable words were very plain now, "her fi-an-say inside, consoomed with pr-ride and anticipation, tellin' all who had come to dance that she had pr-romised to be his, for-river more!
From Then I'll Come Back to You by Larry Evans
