How To Use Droning In A Sentence
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The men were droning at each other in their Greek-inflected patois, or singing through their noses to the accompaniment of a flute out of tune.
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Clinton almost delivered his own political obituary in droning on far longer than he should have, although by 1992 that was mostly forgotten.
Your Right Hand Thief
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No longer was it a droning, meaningless march of disconnected words.
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The shamisen is usually played with a single string, or by plucking an open string for a droning effect while the melody's picked our on one of the other strings, so hearing the fuller chords and harmony notes from these two instruments was a cool experience.
Gil Asakawa: Monsters of Shamisen Rock in Colorado Concert
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When we entered the Wat around lunch time, we were struck by the droning chant of a large group of monks prior to their midday meal.
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You can go through life doing whatever you want, eating hotdogs from the stands without having to pay, stand underneath the Slurpee machines in corner stores and turn your tongue green, fart in church and the reverend keeps droning along like a bee in a hive.
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Women's bell-like tittering and men's droning passiveness filled the void my nervousness made.
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Ai sez, takes bukkit AND chark to courts of apeels…. bore chark to deth wif endless, droning oral argoomnt!
My client haz informed me - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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A didgeridoo is a droning wind instrument made from a hollowed-out tree branch or trunk.
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In the boardroom, they debated the issue of Stella's corporateness versus Chris's droning voice, until at last the moment came for Lord Sugar to struggle through the puzzle of formulating a sentence that ended with the words "You're hired".
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The veteran hardliner has been droning on about her political burnout for years, and has also long had to live with open speculation that her husband is an intelligence agent on the payroll of the French government.
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The dialogue, not always clearly spoken, sounds like a droning recital.
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They should bring to life the droning intonations and cadential prolongation his music shares with the undulating rhythms of Russian prayer.
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Mrs. Flaunders sends her a nasty look and continues droning on.
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It felt like the perfect canvas to indulge my love of recording droning noises in G minor.
The Sun
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Do you think it's something to do with my surprisingly droning voice that goes on and on without the slightest variation?
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Crowds gasped as the team of seven leapt from a droning Hercules 3,000 feet above them, while youngsters rushed for autographs from the jumping daredevils.
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The headphones cope best with constant droning noise, but individual voices can still be heard.
Times, Sunday Times
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I nearly fell asleep while he was droning on!
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As you might expect there's a droning baritone banjo, playing drawn out notes over a deeper, more stable cello.
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There is a harsh, lonely element that runs through much of the IAS material, droning passages, a juxtaposition of numerable repetitious melodies.
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(Did shake my head at "Falling Slowly" though - how did a droning, dirgelike song with almost melody win again?)
Swell Season on Boing Boing Video Boing Boing
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Then the speakers seem to come alive with demented directional droning.
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To be sure, certain winds could be recognised by their voices: a southerly one of any consequence announced itself by a curious droning note which, if it westered a little, rose to a sharp whistle and, in anything above half-a-gale, to a scream.
Nicky-Nan, Reservist
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Debra White Hayes couldn't sleep through the noise, which she described as incessant droning "like monsters.
Good Vibrations? A California Road
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He was droning on about the periodic table of elements.
Christianity Today
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His is droning electronic pulses, tones, twitters - an ever-escalating loop of frozen machine-age ominousness.
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A plane was droning in the distance.
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So: overexcited, overemotional luvvies droning on about whatever boring bandwagon they're obsessed with?
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Fascinated by the five-inch stream, sluiced out of the earth and back to the earth by the droning motor, he forgot his discourse and stood and gazed, rapt and unheeding, while his visitors drove on.
CHAPTER XIV
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I'm weary of his monotone droning as he reads yet another story of yet another hapless, submissive male being dominated by yet another psychotic nympho.
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The style could be described as invitingly strange or vague to the point of alienation, depending on one's appreciation of droning guitar instrumentals and lyrics about feeding your lover garbage.
Austinist
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A bumblebee landed on another, weighing down the bloom as it forced its tongue into the nectary, before droning away across the turf.
Country diary: Westgate, Weardale
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Convinced that she was indeed taking notes, Mr. Hawthorn continued droning on about the Samurai warriors.
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The bad news is that stopping yourself from droning on about your ex may take a little while longer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now and then came the unruffled voice of a female dispatcher, droning numbers and code words.
FOLLOW THE SHARKS
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It felt like the perfect canvas to indulge my love of recording droning noises in G minor.
The Sun
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She pointed to the west where the droning sound of engines was now unmistakeable.
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No droning or monotonous lectures, the professor's job is to lead and move the discussion.
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Her harmonically exploratory, third movement cadenza sounded freshly composed on the spot, and her dreamy, exotically pitch-bent treatment of the concerto's slow movement (against very Middle Eastern-sounding color from the droning bass and skittering arpeggios on the lutes) proved an atmospheric delight.
English Concert at Library of Congress
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Now and then came the unruffled voice of a female dispatcher, droning numbers and code words.
FOLLOW THE SHARKS
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I glanced at Nick, who nodded, and the teacher went back to droning on and on about the transitive property in Geometry: easily the most boring class of the day.
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Synth notes bob, bend and warble, producing a strange, droning, Doppler effect, whizzing past the listener like vehicles on a Tron superhighway.
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The headphones cope best with constant droning noise, but individual voices can still be heard.
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That strange, low, droning noise?
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That strange, low, droning noise?
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For the first chorus, everything stays as before except a droning organ drops in on the left channel, the autoharp plays changes, and the synth gets detuned slightly.
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Imagine the moody dronings of God Speed You Black Emperor, or Spaceman 3 and then add beautifully moody and sullen vox courtesy of Aurelio Valle.
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As far as I can tell, the most likely consequence of the incessant droning that taxes are bad, now that the primary goal of destroying public services while reducing the tax burden on the already prosperous is close to attainment, is that all Americans will adopt the Greek attitude towards taxes.
The Volokh Conspiracy » California’s Woes and Prop 13
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I nearly fell asleep while he was droning on!
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Yanking down the sleeves of my jumper until they covered my hands, I turned back to my teacher, droning on about cell structure.
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Building upon autoharp, organ, or distantly droning tape sounds which constantly shift and realign, Kawabata fingerpicks his way back to Youngs' home turf, often recalling such British folkies as Bert Jansch or John Martyn.
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That strange, low, droning noise?
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He was droning on about the periodic table of elements.
Christianity Today
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Yes, Snow's congeniality is a pleasant change from Scott McClellan's robotic droning.
May 2006
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Do you think it's something to do with my surprisingly droning voice that goes on and on without the slightest variation?
Times, Sunday Times
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‘Deafening’ opens the disc with soothing guitar chords, bells, and violin droning over a tight high-hat and snare-rim beat.
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The harmonium was droning on
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Whatever is the chairman droning on about now?
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Kevin waited a few beats but the droning whine continued.
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I lazily dropped the envelopes to my side on the couch and sat back with a hopeless sigh, staring directly at the droning television, not regarding anything happening on it.
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By the firesides of Irish cottages when songs are sung during the long winter evenings the listeners often "croon" an accompaniment, droning in low voices over and over again a few simple notes which harmonise with the singer's voice.
The Northern Iron
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The veteran hardliner has been droning on about her political burnout for years, and has also long had to live with open speculation that her husband is an intelligence agent on the payroll of the French government.
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A blip of noise signals contact, then a low, droning hiss fills the speakers before the music begins.
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He's been badgering us for about five minutes now with his wretched droning, and if I'm exposed to much more of it I'm going to bite someone.
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I never doubted as to the true reading of the third line of the second stanza of Gray's Elegy, but merely remarked that in one place the penultimate word was printed _drony_, and other authorities _droning_.
Notes and Queries, Number 51, October 19, 1850
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On the surface, the Violettes' debut album follows a well-tested formula for soundscape pop: her delicate voice soaks in a bath of fuzzy guitars, droning cello, and the garble of vocal samples run backward.
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It certainly "smarted", but on the whole the birth was so straightforward I went around, for ages afterwards, droning smugly about how I was "of good working-class stock – hailing from an era when women would chuck one out, then carry on with the haymaking".
Don't believe the propaganda about births at home | Barbara Ellen
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The droning was the steady sound of their engines.
The Dreamthief's Daughter
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He saw the soldiers and the land-girls, the silver sausage shapes of the barrage balloons in the sky, the occasional flight of marauder or defender aeroplanes droning aloft.
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Any dramatic or emotional impact is, however, entirely nullified by the catatonic acting, anaesthetic direction and droning musical score.
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Let's hope that video clips will be occasional items in a blog and not, that in times to come, we will see hordes of people sitting in front of poorly focused digicams or webcams, droning on day after day!
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The bad news is that stopping yourself from droning on about your ex may take a little while longer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whatever is the chairman droning on about now?
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The dialogue, not always clearly spoken, sounds like a droning recital.
Times, Sunday Times
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Do you think it's something to do with my surprisingly droning voice that goes on and on without the slightest variation?
Times, Sunday Times
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Thank goodness blogs hadn't really taken off five years ago, otherwise dreary people would have been droning on and on about how the arrival of the year 2000 wasn't actually the start of the new Millennium after all.
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Joined by his sons on the vocals, plus tablas and droning strings, he performs two khyals and a Pakistani thumri, slightly more uptempo, with rich interplay between the singers.
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The veteran hardliner has been droning on about her political burnout for years, and has also long had to live with open speculation that her husband is an intelligence agent on the payroll of the French government.
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The two of them spoke in a droning monotone, as if talking about municipal zoning ordinances.
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Before being shown into a shed, I could hear the miserable monotonous droning, or pecking noises of the birds.
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The headphones cope best with constant droning noise, but individual voices can still be heard.
Times, Sunday Times
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Synth notes bob, bend and warble, producing a strange, droning, Doppler effect, whizzing past the listener like vehicles on a Tron superhighway.
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The dialogue, not always clearly spoken, sounds like a droning recital.
Times, Sunday Times
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Syncopated staccato accents gradually drop into place on top of an extended droning chord.
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MARENGO - A large tour group of men and women dressed in formal business wear looked out of place Monday among the smells of oil and paint and the dull, noisy droning of countless machines running in the Nissan Forklift plant in Marengo.
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A mosquito wheeled its droning flight over his head.
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As Jack continued on droning about how Chin dislike anime, Zack's head was swarming with questions & incredulity.
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He was droning on about the periodic table of elements.
Christianity Today
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An engaging and thoroughly affable performer, Clarke is an object lesson to all those poets who feel poetry readings should be serious affairs, with every word enunciated in droning, affected tones.
John Cooper Clarke
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The Fragile's most elegant zeniths - "La Mer" and "Just Like You Imagined" - the songs scrape and lull, spanning toothy pop (Track 16); droning interludes (2); Eighties homages (24); the wankerish, disposable digital noise from the remix albums (7); and mostly, cinematic scenes that turn your earbuds into a personal transport system to charred landscapes beneath a gray sky.
Miami New Times | Complete Issue
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How soothing to a spirit tired of the city's din is this solitude, broken only by the singing of the birds and the drowsy droning of the bee, erroneously termed 'bumble'!
In the Midst of Alarms
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He imagines himself channelling vast cosmic forces through his droning feedback guitar.
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There are bumble bees buzzing and droning around my spring flowers.
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I enjoyed both the instrument and the folk / improvisatory style of playing the mandolin, a bit as if it were a laouto, with the melody on the kantini (what French lutenists call chanterelle) and droning, mostly tonic / dominant lower strings.
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A distant toll resounds, a titan’s tone born in a bell tower, sonorous in stone, as echoes, round a temple’s vaulted dome, of droning rote recited from a tome to tell the trundle of our times from womb to tomb:
The Lucifer Cantos 6/13
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It felt like the perfect canvas to indulge my love of recording droning noises in G minor.
The Sun
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The bad news is that stopping yourself from droning on about your ex may take a little while longer.
Times, Sunday Times
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His droning slacker voice and bizarre lyrics were present, but where were the interweaving guitars?
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Page 326 thicker than that of a hippopotamus, and a body to which fervid heat is a comfort rather than an annoyance, he droningly lounges over the prescribed task, on which the intrepid Englishman, unaccustomed and uninured to the burning sun, consumes his impatient energy, and too often sacrifices his life.
Social relations in our Southern States,
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So an office at that end of the building is a definite no-no as the droning hum could drive me mad.
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Coming across the name Sitarissimo among my press releases, I immediately envisioned droning sitar accompanied by a foppish dandy in a powdered wig and ruffle-cuffs, tooting on a piccolo.
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Purser Hardy Dickens heard only the incessant tapping of metalloid bodies against metalloid walls, a reminder of the endless droning of days of his last hundred or so years of life aboard the Interplanetary Love Ship.
CYCLES • by Stephen V. Ramey
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A little to one side sit old men musicians, who keep up a kind of castanet rattle with split willow wands and a droning accompaniment of meaningless syllables, like the burden of old ballads.
The White Hour