drone
noun
the male of the honeybee and other bees, stingless and making no honey.
were droning
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past progressiveof drone.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Teacher Pauline Rebel and her eight pupils were droning through a dull school day when It began.
From Time Magazine Archive
The bees were droning among the hanging flowers.
From Antony Gray,—Gardener by Leslie Moore
They were droning eastward, with all cockpits filled, from that enigmatic point in the west.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 by Harry Bates
Bees were droning in the air, and softly over the land came the song of a happy field hand.
From Sunlight Patch by Credo Fitch Harris
Bees, that might, indeed, be honey-makers from Assasimmon's hives, were droning in the tree-blossoms overhead, and tiny Tominiscoes flitting among the branches.
From The Three Mulla-mulgars by Walter De la Mare
