Verb (used without object) : The meeting droned on for hours.    From Dictionary.com. 

The droning was the steady sound of their engines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dreamthief's Daughter]

No longer was it a droning, meaningless march of disconnected words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literacy News – 60th Edition « News « Literacy News] Reference

But these were the things that sort of made people stop while they're kind of droning on.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 12, 2008] Reference

The disc begins with a similar kind of droning weirdness, although far less "difficult.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Playback:stl Syndication] Reference

"droning," that no notice should have been taken of the substitution by any of the poet's editors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 47, September 21, 1850] Reference

She could not see it, but its droning was in her ears.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference

Master Webster, in the Humanities, droning away like a.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference

  The droning is like a leak that eats away your heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keeping watch] Reference

As he lay there, he heard a droning noise above his head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thirty Indian Legends] Reference

As he trailed off, I heard a low droning sound in the distance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Max Blumenthal: In Democracy's Wasteland, Israel Razes a Bedouin Village...Again (VIDEO)] Reference

The strange droning sound was beginning to become overwhelming.    From Wordnik.com.  [4 Scars] Reference

The strange droning had stopped and an eerie chanting had begun.    From Wordnik.com.  [4 Scars] Reference

By the time that he had swallowed it the droning sound had gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference

As we sat there, overhead we could hear the angry droning of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through St. Dunstan's to Light] Reference

He pressed a button; a droning sort of hum came from the machine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starman's Quest] Reference

Jim was asleep in bed, a morning news show on TV droning overhead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reaction] Reference

The sun was hot and the droning of the bees drowsy in its insistence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference

It had many wings on its back, which kept up a steady, droning noise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thirty Indian Legends] Reference

Oddly enough, at that instant the droning of an insect did become audible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference

It was warm in the sun, and the locusts were droning drowsily in the grass.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Goody-Naughty Book] Reference

Suddenly, overhead, sounded the ominous drumming and droning of an aeroplane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through St. Dunstan's to Light] Reference

For years the quaint seaside village had lain unnoticed in its droning course.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janet of the Dunes] Reference

Abruptly the droning stopped and a tape unravelled out of the side of the machine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starman's Quest] Reference

Pop images: But when you're a teenager, even the president is just another droning voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virgin Cool] Reference

They bridle at being described as "Microserfs," droning away for the greater good of the hive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culture Club] Reference

As I spoke I felt the edges of the world ebb gradually back from the droning sound of my voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bootstraps] Reference

They shuffled the sticks under tow of cedar-bark, droning all the time a low, monotonous chant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference

Sometimes it was faint, and then it would gradually increase, droning off into faintness once more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone or the Picture That Saved a Fortune] Reference

Closer still to the eye, the plane tossed more aggressively, its four propellers droning implacably.    From Wordnik.com.  [Into the Eye] Reference

For most of us, "Powers of Ten" was a welcome respite from our droning high-school science teachers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Now, May the Force Be...Us] Reference

BLAIR: And then Elizabeth Ziman asked guitarist Danny Molad to create a repetitive, almost droning effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Song For Our Times: Elizabeth And The Catapult] Reference

The handsome, affable, glassy eyed CEO would make webcast speeches in his vacant, droning and soporific style.    From Wordnik.com.  [The several stages of grief] Reference

Waving his giant hands in a downward motion to deaden applause, droning on humorlessly, Bradley dared to be dull.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caught In Clinton's Shadow] Reference

Genuine vegetarians mainly care about animal welfare – it's not them ruining your dinner parties with droning eco-waffle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Veggies have a duty to say meat is still murder] Reference

And that is why I urge authors to reconsider simply standing in front of an audience and droning on and on from their books.    From Wordnik.com.  [Melanie Benjamin: How Not to Bore an Audience - A Plea to Authors Everywhere] Reference

She had known men in France shrink in terror at the evil droning of a shell, and then die selflessly that others might live.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

After it was over, after the doctor switched off the machine and its droning, they turned the lights back on, the overhead fluorescents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tape and Wire and Tubes] Reference