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
Thousands of sticky horse-flies were droning around Desnoyers without his even seeing them.
From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Charlotte Brewster Jordan
Her helicopters were droning with all the force that could be flung into them from the crippled power-plant.
From The Flying Legion by George Allan England
It was warm in the sun, and the locusts were droning drowsily in the grass.
From The Goody-Naughty Book by Blanche Fisher Wright
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 William Dean Howells
