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    Use "droning" in a sentence

    droning example sentences

    droning


    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 "droning"

    drone droning monotone

    "droning" definitions

    an unchanging intonation