droning

Example Sentences

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“At any given point, the pike was a symphony of spinning wheels, creaking cabs, clopping hooves, and droning livestock,” Mr. Crytzer writes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

"It is a very low humming, droning, pulsating noise. It's incredibly intrusive and distressing," she said.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2025

He is so incredible with Trane, but he has this droning depth of this like voodoo trance that he gets into on the bass.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2025

It’s not “Stayin’ Alive” throbbing but a Gibbsian falsetto droning, “Get on down.”

From Salon • Jul. 25, 2024

Through the wall the school Xerox machine was droning, droning, droning.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell