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    1. brings sleep without the drone of air conditioning


    2. Mighty was the song from that volcano, a massive, thunderous drone, chords actually changing too fast for some ears to pick from the static, each cycle of the wave was a different note, in the chords chirping above


    3. A gentle drone disturbed my sleep growing louder by the second and I hadn't a clue what it was until I stretched and felt something moving on the bed


    4. I'd started to undo my bootlaces when I became aware of a low drone


    5. heat of the day the service seemed to drone on forever and when


    6. The material almost works but he loses his audience through the diesel drone


    7. Somewhere along the corridor the sound of a vacuum cleaner resumes its low drone and Carol's defensive brusqueness breaks as Dave's shirt absorbs the moisture that spills from her eyes and onto her cheeks


    8. His head is full of the swarm, full of the buzz and drone of putrefaction, and in the middle of the swarm he can see an empty eye socket staring out at him from this heart of darkness in the middle of a Devon farmyard


    9. Klegnif began a chord, starting as a drone


    10. Desa did a quick little tinkle, Klegnif’s drone metamorphosed into an orchestra and Alan got blown halfway back to YingolNeerie because suddenly that yandrille was screaming in all colors and the whole room was stomping with it

    11. The intro was a building drone in E, Klegnif knew how to warp that thru, which Desa would que with a hair-toss


    12. What's more, she was shown a drone image of its development and who was behind the project


    13. His impatience was obvious to those around him and they talked quietly, expectantly, their voices a soft drone in the background


    14. National security rules make it far more difficult for drone operations to be held accountable


    15. The drone program marks another dramatic difference between Bush and Obama


    16. The situation becomes more bizarre when seeing that Obama’s conservative critics rarely denounce him for drone assassinations


    17. Drone killings began in Yemen in 2002, but they were relatively rare for the first seven years of GW Bush’s presidency


    18. But the high point for the number of drone strikes, deaths, and civilian casualties caused by drones is in 2010, under and ordered by Obama


    19. There is no question that drone assassinations anger other nations, making them even more hostile to the US


    20. Finally, in a speech at National Defense University, Code Pink protester Medea Benjamin shouted at Obama over the drone issue

    21. ” After the speech, drone attacks dropped


    22. Likely, much like Bush and his administration of torturers, Obama and all who took part in ordering drone assassination may be unable to travel to most nations outside the US once he is out of office, not without facing arrest and trial


    23. There were also a few reports of possible assassination programs underway, not including drone assassinations


    24. She wondered how much money had been wasted building up these vast armouries only to find them replaced with drone aircraft and 24 hours surveillance


    25. Judging by the surrounding drone, he could tell they were in flight


    26. The drone of an airship could be heard as it readied and soared away


    27. There was a drone from the


    28. There came a sharp, piercing drone in his


    29. with the dull drone of electricity, the canteen was occupied by a


    30. would drone on and on about the subject

    31. I think the constant drone of it will be less irritating than plucking it was


    32. I think you'll find the gaps, particularly those that apply to ground and drone recce, will be filled


    33. " The whole jungle seemed to hold its breath as the pulsing drone of the twin-engined propeller plane began to fill the air


    34. Nothing more than an office drone


    35. Above the drone of war


    36. your head, but the drone of the drier can also induce a


    37. ” I’d listen to the drone of blowflies, watch dust motes, inhale Mother’s eau de violet, and join in the singing – but only if it was cold and wet


    38. The radio on a low drone of something hip‐hop with a blues guitar rift over the top


    39. The woman sighed and said nothing as she followed the unremitting drone of her boyfriend’s voice back up the path


    40. As the journey progressed the drone of the engine sent the children to sleep

    41. There was the usual dull, constant drone coming from the machinery, and flickering of the neon light strips


    42. I heard a low, monotonous hum in the dark, which resembled the drone of insect wings


    43. I heard the drone of voices long before the rest of the team did and slowed down searching for a door that was unlocked


    44. I lay there until the drone of the TV became a comforting hum and within moments I was asleep


    45. He listened to the steady drone of conversation that was identical to the calls he’d heard over the weekend


    46. The drone of outrageous compromise will overtake tomorrow and leave you with dreams… never lived


    47. “This is the third time in six months we have been alerted to a recon drone


    48. advanced on the drone now coasting on its assigned trajectory


    49. Following the current path, the drone would intercept the freight depot


    50. Greg was slightly ahead of the drone














































    1. " Then in an instant his sudden strength departed, and his talk droned away into the low, vague murmurings of a semi-delirious man


    2. We waited for her as the song droned in the background, and she was walking so slowly


    3. what’s the big deal?” a man with a French accent and a Cuban cigar clamped in his mouth droned


    4. Somewhere nearby a bee droned


    5. ‘You’ve been asleep for twenty-four hours,’ droned John, as he lifted Russell’s head and put a cup of water to his lips


    6. “Well, well, well Mallika,” Adrinius droned on inspecting the rest of my room


    7. Had they been heard? The conversation droned on above them, giving no indication that they had been detected


    8. On and on they droned, much like the sound of a wounded bull, until the roar of movement was all but smothered by such a powerful chorus that it seemed to shake the very hills that echoed its thunderous calls


    9. On and on the speaker droned reciting his long list of grievances as he


    10. “I fear that we will pay with our lives for what you have done here today,” Pharan droned on,

    11. heard? The conversation droned on above them, giving no indication that they had been


    12. On and on they droned, much like


    13. The sports coupe droned its way across the great bridge in the direction of the city


    14. The service droned and wailed on, the day's hymns sounding especially whiny to him


    15. Then Karen received her big promotion and worked even longer hours, while his career droned along


    16. She didn’t say anything and their horses’ hooves droned a beat, it’s too late, it’s too late, it’s too late until he thought he would go mad


    17. This went on for quite a while, as the talk inside the shack droned on, until they were all feeling a little sleepy


    18. Joe Billie nursed the bottle and droned on, relieved to unburden his mind, if not his soul, to an understanding human


    19. The briefing officer droned on with details about climate and topography, but did not mention the native species that convinced the captain on station that colonizing this planet might not be appropriate


    20. He lay back on the limb and droned, “That is nice

    21. “Lezura…” Joey droned, and the last thing he remembered was falling on Lezura’s shoulder before blanking out


    22. men, turned toward the east, and Mecca – prostrating themselves - as the Imam droned on in an


    23. It droned of boredom


    24. George Mason droned on while Jillian stifled a yawn


    25. Yet as the aging elevator’s gears droned on, Commissioner Stephenson kept his silence


    26. and him about his gun-running while the Connie droned on and the level of


    27. In the best traditions of the British Empire, he droned on and on


    28. The flight droned on, Don turned down Istanbul and Teheran as stop


    29. “The slave’s escape,” the computer voice droned on, “has angered the Warriors


    30. There was silence for a bit, as the plane droned on

    31. Dr Singh droned on monotonously for about forty minutes about the UPA’s track record over a decade in government—from RTI to NREGA to the proposed food security bill, he pressed all the usual buttons in a rather perfunctory manner


    32. ” The organ droned as the mourning community got up, genuflected on the right knee, and slowly walked toward the back door of the church


    33. A distant hollow howl droned on


    34. ” Love lamented her droned over entreaty to the G-word wannazombie virt-revolutionaries wearing their No Brand, Logo Free stylish anti-consumer badges of fashionable defiance


    35. “Hey, Pan, how's the forest?” EGGO recognized one of the shadows from a camp they had shared a few weeks back before it had been droned to burnt ground


    36. GovCorp droned it out and deposited thousands of hungry rats at the cave's mouths


    37. We recognise that, as lord abbot and rector of All Hallows, you will be responsible for the pastoral care and good guidance of our community …' John droned on and ended with some words about the rule of law and God's Holy Writ


    38. And we stared at each other in silence, and the far-away dim years seemed to catch up what we had said, and mournfully droned back, 'Sleep, and eat, and read the paper


    39. The voices droned on above him


    40. ” The line was patched into a looped ad, which droned on about the many benefits of laser surgery

    41. “I told him I needed to fix the leak on the water heater,” Melvin droned on


    42. In the gardens her hopeful bees, cheated into thoughts of summer, droned round the pale mauves and purples of what was left of starworts


    43. “There has been a missile attack coming from the following coordinates,” the information system voice droned


    44. She strained to hear, hoping they had skipped the office, but Chambers’ voice droned closer and the tenor of his voice changed dramatically after Garret interrupted with a question


    45. Margaret slyly opened hers again, so that she could continue her scrutiny of the elegant stranger while her father's voice droned on


    46. I tuned out again as he droned on and on


    47. They answered the matrimonial questions in turn as the priest droned


    48. But on they droned, with voice number two doing most of the droning because voice number one was doing all right


    49. As he droned on and on, Kristen, for the first time in her life, found herself dozing off in class


    50. In order to be a rapper you must empty your mind and allow whatever drivel comes into your head to be droned out in a dead monotone mechanical obscenity that is a travesty of what music once was



















    1. “‘For in nature he is like the stingless drones who waste the labor of the bees, eating


    2. ‘Not that I can can say for certain we’re not being monitored, there may be remote observation drones hovering outside


    3. Like abeyant drones they all sat in front of monitors, checking for far off asteroids, meteorites and comets


    4. The other side were now poised to strike with the big one – and who could question their entitlement to do just that? Smaller Russian defence installations had already been targeted, with much loss of small-scale hardware, including stealth fighter drones, and neutron warheads


    5. The moon was officially unoccupied since the war; in actuality the Nine still had their subterranean base on the dark side; undoubtedly the Darangi were also present, which begged the question: why had they not prevented the creation of this time machine? The drones her allies used had scanners which penetrated the lunar rock; essentially there was nowhere to hide


    6. chanters and trying the drones


    7. What can they do if you refuse to play by their rules and carry on killing them on sight? Nothing for they lost the initiative! They cannot get to you (homeland USA) to attack you so they are reduced to slinking around in their third world countries fearing the reconnaissance satellites and drones and Egg Breakers


    8. Where Bush ordered torture that led to over 100 deaths (See Section Five), some of which may be homicides, Obama ordered a program of targeted assassinations by drones that led to possibly over 3,000 deaths


    9. But the high point for the number of drone strikes, deaths, and civilian casualties caused by drones is in 2010, under and ordered by Obama


    10. There seems little doubt Obama thought drones a better option than trying to kill by bombing runs

    11. Obama and his advisers were blinded by the promise that drones could be “surgical,” killing only their intended targets and no one else


    12. For Obama, so far the only military force he has sent have been drones used for assassinations in Colombia


    13. Two drones have been sent to within ten kilometers of the plant and have


    14. Only the Hive Queens of that race are intelligent, of which there are a few thousand, but there are hundreds of millions of worker drones of the hives, which are the size of squirrels and no smarter than dogs


    15. Thousands of wingless worker ants, queen ant and drones live in an ant colony


    16. The workers look after the drones and queen


    17. "What about your recce plans with the NRO? You were getting to the point of briefing the JCS, weren't you?" The CSAF was asking Whitey about his position on the board of the National Reconnaissance Organization (NRO) and its attempt to set up intelligence gathering in hostile Southeast Asia (SEA) areas with a combination of ground teams, drones at low altitudes, U-2s in the upper atmosphere, and satellites in space


    18. The Assembly gave her a round of applause, and she gracefully bowed and waved her wings in each of four directions, while her drones flew in beautifully complex patterns over her head


    19. rather live in world full of oddbots rather than the drones out


    20. themselves to be fecundated by the drones and then afterwards destroy them

    21. Do you need a strong, dictatorial centralised government with absolute authority over the worker drones?


    22. You will have no real friends - you can never tell who your real friends are when you have this level of wealth; you will attract government surveillance - money equals power, governments cannot allow the drones to have too much personal power and so they become very interested in you when you make more than ten million


    23. Honestly, he drones on and on about his plans for the Apocalypse, but


    24. ” Timur drones on about security protocol, laughing periodically, he makes jokes to himself and Jim, your disinterest in the workings of the system palpable, You see what you assume is a dirty look from the deformed face of James Jordan


    25. On and on the TV drones


    26. It was a shame the Bible-class had dwindled, however, better one worthy warrior for God than a dozen half-hearted drones


    27. The 50,000 drones had deposited their concentrated chemical gas into the entire atmosphere of the lush, green world


    28. Thousands of drones shot out of the long spines, and fanned out in every direction above the planet’s surface


    29. But before they could release the second group of drones, the minds of the Veiled were confronted by a single, powerful mind


    30. We have made no attempt at interception although long range telescopes and electronic surveillance have verified that they are recon drones

    31. The drones are of the type used by mineral prospectors in search of rare or valuable elements


    32. The tender was a cargo ship like Greg’s except that the cargo attachments had been modified to support launching platforms for drones


    33. Two of the drones bristled with antennae and sensors like the one they had intercepted


    34. See the drones without the antennae and dishes? Those drones are nuclear capable


    35. “Unless they’re drones in a ballistic trajectory,” Wendy said


    36. David said, “You know, there should be a control ship in the midst of those drones


    37. Can we find a mother ship that launched the drones, assuming they are drones?”


    38. A flight of what appeared to be a hundred drones flew silhouetted against the white glow of the Milky Way


    39. A single full sized destroyer hid in the center of the drones


    40. “It’s the attack of the drones,” David quipped

    41. The drones were powering up and starting their reactors


    42. The sensors showed a much larger force of drones than had originally been suspected


    43. The missiles destroyed about a quarter of the drones


    44. Fewer than a dozen of the drones escaped beyond where the destroyers could chase them


    45. She hoped it was far enough away that none of the debris from the destroyed drones would impact any of their ships


    46. Our biggest problem will be that whoever is following the drones knows that they are facing a force to be reckoned with


    47. The pickets departed the mother ship in four waves headed in the direction of the oncoming drones


    48. As Rachel suspected, they had little trouble detecting and destroying the drones


    49. None of the drones survived past the line of pickets


    50. The squadron of light destroyers watched as the picket mopped up the remains of the drones and turned their attention to whatever would follow













































    1. I left him and went outside to wait and after a little while, the droning stopped and a subdued Alexis appeared in the doorway


    2. droning on a Sunday morning and the inevitable chatter of the daily


    3. When he said he was just coming off a bad RNAcid trip about being from YingolNeerie, she immediately started pushing people out of the way and tried to do some kind of a shaman-dance in a star pattern around him, droning some chant all the while


    4. He made his point, the rest of his droning seemed nothing more than pomp to fill the hour


    5. Though he would never admit it openly, the droning monotony of his post had long since begun to wear on his nerves


    6. A large, winged insect buzzed inside, its droning ominous


    7. The droning was constant, but once again we had help disguising our noises by tanks moving along nearby roads


    8. Susan was sitting in a small coffee house in Milngavie drinking the remains of her coffee listening to the droning sound of bagpipes in the background


    9. Putting down the paper, musing on this subject, one could hear a faint droning in the distance


    10. There was a droning

    11. It was frustrating and entirely vindictive for him to be devouring pink fairy floss in my company, but even after my repetitive droning and complaining, Akua didn’t seem to care


    12. I looked down at him in the row before me, our lecturer droning on about the human heart obscenely branded in his PowerPoint slide on his massive white projector, and I realised how little mortals knew about the mischievous muscle


    13. All sounds came as echoes from over the dune line, the persistent droning of the ram’s horns, the shouted commands over the crackling snap of the dreaded whips


    14. the dune line, the persistent droning of the ram's horns, the shouted commands over the


    15. along with the droning sound of flies, became stronger as I


    16. The droning murmur of sunning bodies grows louder around you, no soft‐spoken chatter over speculation as to what happened to the missing Ashby girl now returned


    17. Over the rumble of the volcano, no one heard the Condor droning high above, in a circular holding pattern


    18. “Get ready for another attack,” yelled Ben over the droning


    19. Omes droning on, talking about how


    20. Perhaps if we laid into this droning muppet with our bare-knuckle best, we could insult him enough that he might fuck off and stick his nose in some other poor bastards’ evening

    21. We came to and realised the consulate/embassy jackal was still droning on


    22. Several minutes later, the droning sound of


    23. The droning voice on the other end of the phone had given Hunter a headache


    24. In the end, as by design, the only surplus will be guns and munitions droning over state-sized arid fields of the dead, unnecessary masses


    25. “You know droning moms these days, very AR-47 protective


    26. You can hear the holy sods droning away


    27. At a party recently, after asking a chap (who shall remain nameless but let’s just call him Hugh R Dul ) a number of questions about himself and his connection to the host, his career etc—after about 20 minutes of centre-stage droning on about himself and tel ing me what I


    28. I hear them talking through the open window, and what they say, wafted out to me here in the sun, sounds like the pleasant droning of bees when one is only half awake


    29. A droning cloud hovered by his face and he waved a hand, then felt a pinprick of pain


    30. The only thing on is news, droning about the situation in Europe

    31. His gentle voice made a soft droning in the emptiness


    32. Pressing an ear to the wattle and daub wall of a small shack she'd passed earlier, however, quickly transformed the sounds into voices – to the clinking of glass, to laughter and droning conversation


    33. The deified Naga’s disciples sang incantations that echoed from afar as their droning rebounded off an unseen canopy


    34. The guilt trip worked and the two had stomped around the hospital all day listening to Nick droning on about, how much it would cost, how much his arm hurt, and how it was all Spocks fault


    35. droning report of the major events occurring in


    36. They were droning, but definitely voices


    37. But on they droned, with voice number two doing most of the droning because voice number one was doing all right


    38. Her teacher had officially been droning on and on about nothing for exactly six minutes, and Claire knew that if it was remotely possible to die of boredom, she would be on the ground, breathless


    39. What is rap music? It is a mechanical, droning, a screaming mechanical insanity by things that are not human; that is not music: that is the opposite of music


    40. He recited the words on the screen in a droning voice a hair more human-sounding than a computerized telephone answering system

    41. In the twilight of the workshop the white dust was flying from his tools like a shower of sparks under the hoofs of a galloping horse; the two wheels were turning, droning; Binet smiled, his chin lowered, his nostrils distended, and, in a word, seemed lost in one of those complete happinesses that, no doubt, belong only to commonplace occupations, which amuse the mind with facile difficulties, and satisfy by a realisation of that beyond which such minds have not a dream


    42. But as he read her text, the professor droning on in the background, he realized that he’d been holding more tension in his neck than he’d noticed


    43. It was droning like a harmonium with the flies and bluebottles, and the floor and walls were like a slaughter-house


    44. Amid the droning of the wind there had come the stamping of a horse's hoofs and the long grind of a wheel as it rasped against the kerb


    45. sable, appeared at his shoulder, hovered, droning and motionless, and was gone like lightning into the sedge


    46. But for an awful lot of the time I was sitting among people I felt I had nothing in common with, droning on for the few hours they had company


    47. She felt as if she had been The dim room swam with heat and pain and droning flies, and time went by on such in this steaming, dark, sweating place all her life


    48. We’ve grown accustomed to horizontal communication, flatlining banalities and droning insignificance


    49. She mounted him and took control of all of him for all of her, absorbed in herself, her eyes closed, gauging the situation in her absolute inner darkness, advancing here, retreating there, correcting her invisible route, trying another, more intense path, another means of proceeding without drowning in the slimy marsh that flowed from her womb, droning like a horsefly as she asked herself questions and answered in her native jargon; where was that something in the shadows that only she knew about and that she longed for just for herself, until she succumbed without waiting for anybody, she fell alone into her abyss with a jubilant explosion of total victory that made the world tremble


    50. Amid the droning of the wind there had come the stamping of a horse's hoofs, and the long grind of a wheel as it rasped against the curb


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    Synonyms for "drone"

    drone bourdon drone pipe pilotless aircraft radio-controlled aircraft droning monotone dawdler laggard lagger poke trailer drone on bee idler insect

    "drone" definitions

    stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen


    an unchanging intonation


    someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind


    an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control


    a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone


    make a monotonous low dull sound


    talk in a monotonous voice