Example Sentences

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Now, cheese has been my favorite food forever and always—I will drone on about this to anyone who’ll listen—but I was late to discovering my love for halloumi.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2025

All told: billions upon billions of cicadas will drone on for four to six weeks, but no one is getting hurt — just potentially irritated.

From Salon • May 16, 2024

The old folk of our grandfathers' young days sang a song bearing exactly the same burden; and the young folk of to-day will drone out precisely similar nonsense for the aggravation of the next generation.

From Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)