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droning

d roh ning

  • n  an unchanging intonation
  • v  make a monotonous low dull sound
    The harmonium was droning on
  • v  talk in a monotonous voice

  • The September day that Fisticuffer Gene Tunney arrived in Chicago, one of the motorcycle policemen in his honking, roaring, droning, whizzing escort fell off his machine and was .
  • Preaching passion of both the metaphysical and physical order, The Doors have a style at once more plaintive and dramatic than the droning, hypnotic waves of sound poured out by .
  • The business case for going green is increasingly clear, even without Al Gore droning on and on and on about it: where green goes, so goes the bottom line.
News & Articles

  • 2013 Nissan Altima 2.5 Long-Term Update 2
    The consistency of the engine's droning noise gets me every time.
    June 10, 2013 - MotorTrend
  • Stream Heliotropes' Sumptuous Psych-Rock Opus 'A Constant Sea'
    Heliotropes' debut album may be titled  A Constant Sea , but this Brooklyn foursome is too busy navigating messy comedowns to worry about waves. The psych-rock collective's first full-length is 12 tracks of stoner rock madness — all fuzz freakouts, bluesy droning, and existential introspection...
    June 10, 2013 - Spin
Quotes

  • Darren Fletcher in Irish Independent
    Vuvuzelas droning like a swarm of angry bees,says Darren Fletcher on 5 live.
  • Derryn Hinch in Melbourne Herald Sun
    I'm told I was just dreadful. I was flat, I was droning, I was down,Hinch said. "I should have known because . . . I'd have a 15-minute sleep before I went on air. It wasn't until I saw the photos and I think a Channel 7 news broadcast. I...
  • Helen Fisher in Sydney Morning Herald
    I don't know if I'm the only one who found excruciating this constant droning that was going on. They were blowing these trumpet-looking horns and it never ended. It was like you're being attacked by a swarm of locusts for 90 consecutive minutes.... Mike Greenberg http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Greenberg&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGh86aOXag-T4bXD7p-uJnbUwcnag New Zealand Herald http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm%3Fc_id%3D4%26objectid%3D10651847&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFoFXTXvIbEFVqtAEYAzCmmIy3Lyg Jun 13, 2010 30500 39288 drool Should you drool more? You don't want to turn off your partner," Fisher warned.

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