- present perfect progressive of drone (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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In April, the new landlord placed an industrial air filter outside Ozsu’s door, and the blower has been droning nonstop, driving him and his 13-year-old boxer mix, Penelope, up the wall.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 15, 2022
Out of it swirls a teeming cloud of characters and incidents: a lawsuit that has been droning on for years, now grown "so complicated that no man alive knows what it means."
From Time Magazine Archive
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The case against International Business Machines has been droning on since the first papers were filed on the final working day of the Johnson Administration in January 1969.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He has been droning on now for twenty-five hours and thirty-two minutes, one hour and fourteen minutes past Thurmond’s record.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
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