- present participle of drone.
droning
Example Sentences
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The mostly instrumental “Panorama” swirls banjo, mandolin, strings and horns with droning electronics, landing on a kind of spaced-out Americana.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
“Ups & Downs” is an instrumental with a droning keyboard—perhaps a harmonium—along with a clarinet and clattering percussion that sounds like a drum kit being slowly unpacked from its case.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
She came to know the other immigrant women housed in a large room lined with 54 beds and a television droning most waking hours.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2025
"It is a very low humming, droning, pulsating noise. It's incredibly intrusive and distressing," she said.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2025
There were harsher plants as well—spiked jimson weeds and poisonous dark pokeberries, and bees droning everywhere.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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