were droning
- past progressive of drone.
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
It was a mild, dull morning, with a misted sunshine; in the little crimson tassels of the budded maples overhead the bees were droning.
From A Pair of Patient Lovers by Howells, William Dean
The clerks were droning everywhere, scarcely pretending to earn their salaries.
From Whirligigs by Henry, O.
The twins had also been put to rest, and were droning themselves to sleep in a drowsy sing-song duet with which they always filled the house before subsiding into their nightly slumber.
From A Countess from Canada A Story of Life in the Backwoods by Marchant, Bessie
In a hidden place behind the high altar, above which is raised the great, carved sarcophagus, priests were droning the office.
From The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople by Hichens, Robert (Robert Smythe)
