How to Use drone in a Sentence

drone

1 of 2 verb

• We could hear wasps droning in the garden.
• The room was damp and stuffy, despite a fan droning loudly in the corner.
  — Zoya Qureshi, The Atlantic, 31 July 2023
• Almost like a Dobro — if anyone's familiar with that — with a droning tone on it.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2024
• The recitation of Islam’s dawn prayers droned softly from a nearby mosque, and somewhere nearby, a rooster began to crow.
  — Vivian Nereim Andrea Dicenzo, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• Listening to you drone on about culture, music, silly book ideas, your mother, and your . . .
  — Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2020
• Bombers droned across the night sky as soldiers scrambled onto the beachhead, taking cover behind huts and clusters of palm trees.
  — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
• True, some faculty prefer to drone on in Zoom classes for their own convenience.
  — Ann Kirschner, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
• Some have proposed Special Forces raids, others drone strikes, others naval blockades.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• Elsewhere in the packinghouse, printers would whirr and the steam-hiss of sanitizing equipment would drone for 10 hours a day, six days a week and only rest, like the workers, on Sundays.
  — Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 24 Aug. 2023
• Native bees drone in sunlit meadows; warblers flit between new shrubs.
  — Ben Goldfarb, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2020
• The surprise drop came a month after Ocean sneaked out another snippet on his Story on Nov. 8, a minute-long, unnamed moody track on which he was heard crooning over a droning keyboard.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 8 Dec. 2023
• Bury your foot in the throttle—an exercise few Murano buyers will do frequently—and the CVT spikes the engine revs and holds them there, resulting in a loud, droning growl from under the hood.
  — Drew Dorian, Car and Driver, 8 Sep. 2023
• Everybody knows that the music starts playing when someone is taking up too much time with their acceptance speech, but awards shows have long been selective about who gets to drone on and who gets cut off.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2021
• Just as droning strings can transform a humdrum street into a threatening alley, Fang uses her sound effects to prime our emotions.
  — WIRED, 18 Sep. 2023
• Even droning down the Interstate, the damping and the chassis isolation of the VW—communicative but still comfortable—tell you the autobahn influence is alive and well.
  — Kevin Smith, Car and Driver, 4 Mar. 2023
• The result is the drifting synth waltzes and accordion laments, a set that transmutes the instrument’s droning tones into a sweep of introspective, breath-catching moments of beauty.
  — Pitchfork, 14 Dec. 2023
• It was built instead for other issues: the tedium of taking notes, the coworkers who drone on and on, and the difficulty in keeping everyone engaged.
  — Arielle Pardes, Wired, 24 Nov. 2020
• But before the internet, if someone were to drone on about fluoride in the drinking water, for instance, their comments weren't likely to become national news.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2021
• But before the internet, if someone were to drone on about fluoride in the drinking water, for instance, their comments weren’t likely to become national news.
  — David Klepper, chicagotribune.com, 16 Aug. 2021
• Google Bard can generate paragraphs of text, but when those answers are being read aloud, the Assistant's shorter answers are better than just droning on and on with the clumsy monotone text-to-speech system.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 30 Mar. 2023
• Tech seemed a focused way to drain the artist’s expressive self from a work of art, the subject of an emotional inner life having been wrung dry by the narrow, droning longevity of Abstract Expressionist painting.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2023
• In audio captured here, Ocean can be heard crooning in his hazy manner over a droning keyboard, with the lyrics coming through only in brief, intelligible bits as the words often slide together in a blur.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 9 Nov. 2023
• Looking almost too large to fly, these bumblebees drone loudly, bringing the noises of the growing season before very much is actually in active growth.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 10 Feb. 2023
• Unfortunately, Jo's notes are less than dynamic, and the interns are forced to drone on about contraceptives, menstrual calendars, and the morning-after pill.
  — Yolanda MacHado, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2022
• Mercedes’s contribution to this sonic uprising is a clanging, droning soundtrack drawn from the sounds made by throwing bullet casings into a crucible.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2023
• And the band removed stylistic choices from its earlier albums that might be unpleasant for conventional audiences: droning feedback, jazzy noodling, and 25-minute songs.
  — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 2 Mar. 2023
• That said, the car's continuously variable automatic transmission has a tendency to drone the engine.
  — Nicholas Wallace, Car and Driver, 21 Mar. 2023
• Farther inland, past smoldering swaths of forest, locals in villages and farmsteads battled flames with sticks and buckets of water as firefighters deployed helicopters and aircraft droned overhead.
  — Niki Kitsantonis, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
• Echoing those visuals is a soundscape of chirping cicadas and falling rain, paired with an insistent, droning score by composer Shida Shahabi, heightening the increasing heaviness in the atmosphere.
  — Michael Rechtshaffen, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 2023
• Customers range from automotive manufacturers to drone operators to transit providers.
  — David Silver, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022

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drone

2 of 2 noun

• What’s needed is this drone that just plays one note: blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
  — Jordan A. Rothacker, SPIN, 20 Dec. 2023
• The same will likely come to pass with both drones and robotics.
  — Gideon Kimbrell, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2024
• It’s got a number of ports that can charge up your phones, iPads, drones, and cameras quickly.
  — Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2023
• The drone circled for a while and flew across the valley toward the settler sitting beside the tent.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• Since then, drones have shown up in two other Russian regions, Kursk and Voronezh.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 15 June 2023
• One person can produce many drones that can be used to drop bombs or spy on the enemy.
  — Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Dec. 2023
• Cooper said a total of 61 missiles and drones have been shot down by U.S. warships.
  — Tara Copp, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2024
• The screen flashes to a drone shot of downtown, a quick cut to a closeup of Los Angeles County Dist.
  — Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2024
• Kennedy Sanders was one of three U.S. service members killed in a drone attack at a base in Jordan over the weekend.
  — Manuel Bojorquez, CBS News, 30 Jan. 2024
• Russia often changes the route of its missiles and drones to find weak spots in Ukraine’s air defenses.
  — Mstyslav Chernov, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023
• The Kremlin has blamed mounting drone attacks in Moscow on Ukraine.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2023
• Officials had to find the owner and get the drone down before the helicopter could return.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Aug. 2023
• Mendel said companies that use drones for commercial use have these kinds of maps.
  — Sean McDonnell, cleveland, 24 Aug. 2023
• After the storm, a team used a drone to survey the damage on Elgin’s far west side, helping count and identify the homes that had been hit.
  — Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 1 Aug. 2023
• Steindl, the Austrian climber, said the drone footage shows one man trying to rub Hassan’s chest, trying to keep him warm and alive somehow.
  — Zarar Khan, Kirsten Grieshaber, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Aug. 2023
• On May 3, two explosive drones targeted the Kremlin, in the heart of the capital.
  — Sophie Tanno, CNN, 24 Feb. 2024
• Clint Hansen took drone video Tuesday night that showed wildfires spreading just north of Kihei.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 9 Aug. 2023
• In other words, don’t expect a massive amount of little ISR or kamikaze drones to flood into the Services.
  — Eric Tegler, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Upon arriving at the destination of study, the team uses a drone to spot the location of the sharks.
  — Ana Ramirez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Nov. 2023
• Stephens Law firm from Fort Worth suggests calling a drone injury lawyer if the drone causes damage.
  — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Apr. 2024
• Ed Hartel, a local photographer and drone pilot, was the first to spot the surfing seal pup.
  — Averi Kremposky, Peoplemag, 23 June 2023
• Dutcher said there may still be one person missing and searchers are using infrared cameras on drones to search the area.
  — Travis Caldwell, CNN, 16 June 2023
• In Lansing, police trudged through fields and neighborhoods, and looked down from high above in helicopters and with drones.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 6 July 2023
• With the drones, there is some risk the show could be called off if there are wind issues or if visibility is poor, Frimond said.
  — Erika I. Ritchie, Orange County Register, 3 May 2024
• The drones used in the demonstration look like normal quadcopters but with an extra component (a plug or jack).
  — Charlotte Hu, Popular Science, 23 Aug. 2023
• Lebanon’s National News Agency reported that a drone strike on a car in the village of Bazouriye killed one person.
  — Victoria Bisset, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
• The filmmakers used specialized infrared drones to capture the heat signatures of workers on ships, and to give the footage a sense of strangeness.
  — By Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2023
• Amid concerns about a wider conflict in the region, Lebanese state media reported that an Israeli drone struck a car in the southern Lebanese town of Konin.
  — Melanie Lindman, Wafaa Shurafa, arkansasonline.com, 1 Apr. 2024
• The Houthis have been launching a series of attacks on vessels in the Red Sea, as well as launching drones and missiles targeting Israel amid the war.
  — Jon Gambrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Dec. 2023
• Ukrainian anti-aircraft defenses downed 20 of the drones and about 39 other projectiles, the Air Force of Ukraine said in a statement.
  — Natalia Kushnir, ABC News, 8 May 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024