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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 Gibbs, J. Arthur