drone
noun
the male of the honeybee and other bees, stingless and making no honey.
had been droning
-
past perfect progressiveof drone.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
High-spirited young Duff Cooper was succeeded by the completely unexciting Earl Stanhope, who had been droning along as president of the Board of Education.
From Time Magazine Archive
The talk about a Western Union in Europe, which had been droning off to a snore, buzzed up again.
From Time Magazine Archive
All this while the ancient had been droning something about the beauties of the old flat-bed presses, and the goshly-gorfulness of machine printing.
From The Mesa Trail by H. Bedford-Jones
Well, when the priest had been droning for three hours, and the good king polishing the evidences, and the sick were still pressing forward as plenty as ever, I got to feeling intolerably bored.
From A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 5. by Mark Twain
Suddenly, too, a voice which had been droning far away became audible.
From The House of Mystery An Episode in the Career of Rosalie Le Grange, Clairvoyant by Will Irwin
