- present participle of drone.
droning
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An audio reader daren’t go flat, for fear of droning on and boring the listener, but as this audiobook shows, excessive buoyancy also carries a risk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
The little wagon retains the flat-four’s characteristic droning when it revs out, as when merging with highway traffic.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
Dillon also mocked his critics during the episode, impersonating them in a droning voice: “They don’t believe in anything, these people.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 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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