I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
on
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I'd almost fallen asleep while Uncle Hamish had been droning on .
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Halsey droned on , describing every bet he had made.
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For months now, I've been droning on and on about how all cars these days are getting too heavy.
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Think of a friend who drones on as your mind wanders.
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You fell asleep once when I went droning on through Biographica Literaria.
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The windscreen wipers droned on and on.
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The voices were now droning on , but much softer.
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The priest's voice droned on .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A plane droned overhead.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A lawn mower droned a few houses down.
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I'd almost fallen asleep while Uncle Hamish had been droning on.
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The windscreen wipers droned on and on.
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There were cars and aeroplanes droning.
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They droned about, surrounded by the black, dissolving snorts of high explosive.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
hear
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Didn't she hear it, the drone , the hum, that awful, teasing, dreary hum?
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Far off she heard the drone of a tractor working late or set for home.
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He could hear the drone of a vacuum cleaner.
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Cassie woke just after first light to hear the drone of their engines fading in the direction of the sea.
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She heard the drone of some bees in the garden and the angry chatter of birds disputing over their seeds.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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She was labeled a welfare drone .
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Shelby was one of the drones on the factory floor.
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The police use high-tech radar drones to catch speeders.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Didn't she hear it, the drone , the hum, that awful, teasing, dreary hum?
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Gradually, the drone of the Boeing's engines faded into the background of her thought.
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I fall asleep to the drone of sirens and helicopters overhead.
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Nothing in the sing-song drone showed that he noticed.
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The organism of a hive yields integration for its community of worker bees, drones, pollen and brood.
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There he crowded against other inhabitants in mutual discomfort as the drone of bombers drew near.
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They needed the repetition, the dense hypnotic drone of woods and water, but above all they needed to be together.