DRONE in a Sentence

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38 example sentences for DRONE, such as:

1. The air conditioner droned almost inaudibly.
2. In the drone of the garden it went unheeded.
3. Don't drone away the precious years of youth.
4. She droned away for hours about her pet subjects.
5. A drone of voices was audible through the closed window.

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 Meanings and Examples of DRONE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
drone
 n.  idle person; male bee; someone who takes more time than necessary
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  The drone of the trees was in their ears; the chirp of birds; other incidents of garden life, inaudible, invisible to her in the bedroom, absorbed them.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
2  In the drone of the garden it went unheeded.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
3  When the monotonous sound of Weyrother's voice ceased, Kutuzov opened his eye as a miller wakes up when the soporific drone of the mill wheel is interrupted.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII
4  A drone of voices was audible through the closed window.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXV
5  The soft drone of her voice was making him stiller and stiller and she saw it and went on.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  It passed slowly out of sight; but still he heard in his ears the laborious drone of the engine reiterating the syllables of her name.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
7  An Academician would say that the entertainments of the fashionable world are collections of flowers which attract inconstant butterflies, famished bees, and buzzing drones.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 96. The Contract.
8  I heard them droning out their death-psalms, little judging they were sung in respect for my soul by those who were thus famishing my body.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
9  He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got beyond words.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET
10  It was droning like a harmonium with the flies and bluebottles, and the floor and walls were like a slaughter-house.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
11  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.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
12  The droning sound swelled louder upon our ears until it became one long, deep wail of distress.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
13  The dim room swam with heat and pain and droning flies, and time went by on such dragging feet Scarlett could scarcely remember the morning.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
14  Two young men in brown robes like furniture-covers were gesturing vacuously and droning cryptic sentences full of repetitions.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
15  He gave most of the morning lectures, droning with equal unhappy facility about poetry, the Holy Land, and the injustice to employers in any system of profit-sharing.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
Example Sentence:
1  Content to let his wife support him, the would-be writer was in reality nothing but a drone.
2  "You are a sluggard, a drone, a parasite," the angry father shouted at his lazy son.
3  Islamabad publicly opposes drone attacks, saying they kill too many civilians in addition to their intended target - Islamist militants.
4  The Pakistani government Saturday accused the U.S. of sabotaging peace talks with domestic Taliban fighters by killing their leader in a drone strike, as the militants began the process of choosing a successor.
5  Don't drone away the precious years of youth.
6  Outside the tent I could hear the constant drone of insects.
7  Nor would most hovering drones stand a chance in the intense storms and blizzards that helicopters sometimes have to fly into.
8  Mark Zuckerberg is putting together a lab where a team of Facebook engineers will build flying drones, satellites, and infrared lasers capable of beaming internet connections to people down here on earth.
9  The queen bee is likely to mate with two or three drones.
10  She droned away for hours about her pet subjects.
11  Above him an invisible plane droned through the night sky.
12  The air conditioner droned almost inaudibly.