drone
noun
the male of the honeybee and other bees, stingless and making no honey.
have been droning
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present perfect progressiveof drone.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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U.S.-Soviet negotiations on conventional-force reductions in Europe have been droning on in Vienna for 13 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
O porpoise! hang him, no: he's a leiger at Horn's ordinary, yonder; his villainous Ganymede and he have been droning a tobacco-pipe there ever since yesterday noon.
From Every Man out of His Humour by Ben Jonson
Thus, if Plato could have had his way, his great common chord, his harmony of producers, soldiers and philosophers, would still have been droning monotonously down the ages, wherever men were assembled to dwell together.
From A Modern Symposium by G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) Dickinson
The mills—those wonderful mills—should have been droning out their chorus of human achievement in a world set out for Nature's fiercest battle ground.
From The Man in the Twilight by Ridgwell Cullum
