Crossword clues for droning
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drone \Drone\ (dr[=o]n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Droned; p. pr. & vb. n. Droning.] [Cf. (for sense 1) D. dreunen, G. dr["o]hnen, Icel. drynja to roar, drynr a roaring, Sw. dr["o]na to bellow, drone, Dan. dr["o]ne, Goth. drunjus sound, Gr. ? dirge, ? to cry aloud, Skr. dhran to sound. Cf. Drone, n.]
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To utter or make a low, dull, monotonous, humming or murmuring sound.
Where the beetle wheels his droning flight.
--T. Gray. To love in idleness; to do nothing. ``Race of droning kings.''
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
n. a dull humming vb. (present participle of drone English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "droning".
Then it was gone, and something moved with a hard droning sound along the walls of the cabin behind Hiskey.
Then a hard deep droning noise swelled in the air, and Harold knew the Rilf's thorax was spewing out its store of toziens.
He knew it because they weren't inaudible now but continued to make droning or whiffing sounds as they had during McNulty's attack.
Tozien droning drew in towards the motion, thickening, zigzagging back and forth above and in front of him.
The repetition was endless and I was passive to it, prompted by the droning voice, no longer gentle, but equally insistent.
He spent a long time droning on about the delicate handling necessary to rendezvous in deep space, and Sassinak let her attention wander.
Yes, he'd been preparing for his journeyman's examinations and old Gallardy had been droning on and on about unusual and obsolescent techniques.
The idea of creeping through the woods with loaded rifles while their friends are back at dear old DJHS, just droning away, strikes them as incredibly, delightfully boss, and they walk past The Retard Academy on the other side of the street without even seeing it.
And then his ass turning up to the light - that harsh fluorescent light that kept no secrets but blabbed everything in a droning monotone.
Soon he was droning it over and over in a whispery, tuneless monotone while the sweat soaked through his shirts and clear mucus ran from his nose to freeze on his upper lip: 'I know we can make it, I know we can, we can work it out, yes we can-can yes we can yes we can .
Consciousness had returned in the hospital, with that droning voice from a nearby room: Please stop, I can't stand it, give me a shot, where's Marcy, I want Marcy.
He strolls unseen down a corridor, past a parked gumey with a bedpan on it, past a pair of laughing, talking nurses who are looking at photographs, passing them from hand to hand, and toward that droning voice.
There was a spanng sound and Henry sensed something pass right in front of his nose, a small wicked droning thing.
All were positive ones, even the low droning of Important Business Proceeds Best with Care and Caution.
The haggis screamed, droning in weird multiplicity as Dane's fingers danced spasmodically on one of the tubes, a groaning, wailing, urgent cacophony that tore at Rip's ears and filled his heart with fierceness.