Droning is an English word with synonyms like abuzz or buzzing. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Droning meaning
present participle and gerund of drone
Synonyms of Droning
Using Droning
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of drone
- Useful related words include: abuzz, buzzing, noisy, monotone.
- In the example corpus, droning often appears in combinations such as: droning on, droning noise, the droning.
Context around Droning
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 12 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Droning
- In this selection, "droning" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, haitians, deep, situation, noise, voice and raga stand out and add context to how "droning" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a deep droning raga a and all this droning on and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "droning" sits close to words such as aaj, abn and aboriginals, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with droning
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
West’s subpar lyricism raps over the droning sample. (9 words)
Entire set of their droning for just $19.95! (9 words)
During the inspection, the officers felt the fan vibrating and emitting a droning noise. (14 words)
He was too busy drivelling on about pet-eating Haitians, droning about how Hungary's prime minister (a rather unsavory 'strongman' 99 percent of Americans have never heard of) thought he was great, and predicting we were on the verge of World War Three. (44 words)
Reed initially composed these droning, spacious tracks for his own use — a personal soundtrack for meditating, receiving acupuncture treatments or doing tai chi — but after friends and acquaintances kept asking him for copies, he decided to put it out. (39 words)
The 12-track project is filled with driving guitar riffs that take inspiration not only from Ramones-era punk but also nu-metal, surf rock, and at times, droning art-pop. (31 words)
Entire set of their droning for just $19.95! (9 words)
Example sentences (20)
Harrowingly dull, Daddy’s sermons ambitiously tried to imitate the cadence and pattern of great preachers, but he would lapse into a droning voice halfway through.
During the inspection, the officers felt the fan vibrating and emitting a droning noise.
He was too busy drivelling on about pet-eating Haitians, droning about how Hungary's prime minister (a rather unsavory 'strongman' 99 percent of Americans have never heard of) thought he was great, and predicting we were on the verge of World War Three.
On the third floor of their building is a 1993 iteration of their “,” a public installation rigged with lavender light and a deep, droning raga — a total calligraphy.
Pausing, she thought of her boyfriend, the guy who had been droning on about his ex-wife last night, leading to her post-call resolve to split up.
Rachael Shead, who has lived in Immingham for five years, added: ‘It’s like a droning noise and goes on and on and on.
Reed initially composed these droning, spacious tracks for his own use — a personal soundtrack for meditating, receiving acupuncture treatments or doing tai chi — but after friends and acquaintances kept asking him for copies, he decided to put it out.
The war in the Middle East, Ukraine situation droning on, the political paralysis in the United States.
West’s subpar lyricism raps over the droning sample.
But, by the end, Dylan’s hypnotic, droning music and his fun-house-mirror journey through literature, movies, and musical history casts a most effective spell.
Entire set of their droning for just $19.95!
In songs like “Weightlifters” and “Headlines (Hostile)” droning synthesizers are put to optimal use.
The 12-track project is filled with driving guitar riffs that take inspiration not only from Ramones-era punk but also nu-metal, surf rock, and at times, droning art-pop.
Spare a thought for having to put up with all this droning on and on about the tracker mortgage scandal and the thousands of people whose lives it turned upside down.
The song, “Mal a Laise,” was an exercise in atmosphere, with droning synth loops layered over reverb-heavy vocals murmured in both French and English.
He says his music —a trippy mix of jazz, psych rock and droning electronic noise — comes from his Great-Aunt Coleslaw.
The instrumentals expand into this hectic nature, thrashing around for a bit to break up the droning component of the track.
Trump Jr. only remembered Veselnitskaya droning on and on about the Magnitsky Act and adoptions, quickly losing his interest.
Classical necromancers addressed the dead in "a mixture of high-pitch squeaking and low droning", comparable to the trance-state mutterings of shamans.
Groucho's voice becomes deep and droning as he steps apart from the other characters to comment on the scene: "Living with your folks.
Common combinations with droning
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- droning on 4×
- droning noise 2×
- the droning 2×
- and droning 2×