‘he nodded off to the _drone_ of the car engine’

‘Well, no sounds today, of course, as whoever it is must be at work, so the only sound from this house is the endless _drone_ of daytime TV, which I have spent much of the day summoning up the energy to turn off.’

‘the _drone_ rose by a third to A’

‘While Doria and Denardo clearly embrace the primal power of the _drone_ , their sound is loud but not dissonant or cacophonous, and is seldom if ever grating but instead clean.’

‘Young men buzzed around her like _drones_ to their queen bee.’

‘There are only 100 or so males, or _drones_ , per hive.’

‘only twenty minutes of the hour-long _drone_ had passed’

‘She looked at it now, while she tuned out the monotonous _drone_ of her teacher's ramblings.’

‘There are two components other than the bag which set the Bagpipes from other instruments, the reed chanter and the _drone_ pipes.’

‘Move interstate but always have it in the back of your mind to return one day, just to see if New Editions Bookshop is still there and to lay a _drone_ pipe atop his grave.’

‘the University takes all the profit and redistributes it to _drones_ like him’

‘Angry mindless _drones_ swarm in and complain about the review because they're too dense to realize it's a joke.’

‘It is a game whose rules are betrayal and paranoia; whose tools are spies and observation _drones_ and cruise missiles.’

‘Overhead, a _drone_ whirred menacingly, and a helicopter gunship cruised the coast.’

‘in the far distance a machine _droned_ ’

‘His voice _droned_ and buzzed in Sean's ears like a hovering bee, more so today than any other day.’

‘traffic _droned_ up and down the street’

‘There are bumble bees buzzing and _droning_ around my spring flowers.’

‘he reached for another beer while Jim _droned_ on’

‘Convinced that she was indeed taking notes, Mr. Hawthorn continued _droning_ on about the Samurai warriors.’