drone
noun
the male of the honeybee and other bees, stingless and making no honey.
is droning
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present progressiveof drone (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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No one is droning on and milking applause.
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2020
But that scene always comes back, usually when some barfly is droning on about how Patrick has no business operating a race car.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 21, 2017
But a large Jeff Koons piece is droning nearby, vitiating thought with its generic monotone of irony.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 13, 2015
Gray: In the first edition of the Elegy the epithet in question is droning; and so it stands in the Poems of Gray, as edited by himself, in 1753, 1768, &c.
From Notes and Queries, Number 59, December 14, 1850 by Various
As we return towards the old manor house the nightjar, or goatsucker, is droning loudly, and a nightingale--actually a nightingale!--is singing in the copse.
From A Cotswold Village by J. Arthur Gibbs
