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drone on

droʊn ɔn
WordNet
  1. (v) drone on
    talk in a monotonous voice
Usage in the news

First, a confession: In high school, my eyes glazed over as my English teacher droned on about the universality of Shakespeare and his literary genius. thedailypage.com

Kaplan and Packer on Drone Warfare. nyc.org

Since the War on Terror began, pilotless surveillance drones have been a useful and effective tool for the US Military both in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as combating the terror threat overseas. nj.com

Three years after it was founded, Danvers-based CyPhy Works is finally showing off what it has been working on this week, unveiling two hovering drones designed for indoor and outdoor operations. boston.com

The drone was on routine maritime surveillance in international airspace east of Kuwait, 16 miles off the coast of Iran , US officials said. bal.com

John McCain, R-Ariz. Has criticized President Obama's foreign policy on Syria and has called for an independent investigation into high-profile leaks on drone attacks and cyber warfare. pbs.org

Drones help keep an eye on storms. dailypress.com

On Friday, Nov 16, 2012, Israeli Defense Forces released this video it claims shows a Hamas drone aircraft being tested in Khan Yunis, Gaza. cbsnews.com

Speaking on Israeli television, an IDF spokesman said that for the past few months Israel has been monitoring Hamas' attempt to build a drone fleet. 2.wkrg.com

) Daily Times on surveillance drones. newstribune.com

Despite the Air Force's emphasis on unmanned drones, manned aircraft are not going away, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen Norton Schwartz told reporters on Tuesday. airforcetimes.com

U.S.-born militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was killed in a drone strike in Yemen on September 30. cnn.com

We could drone on and on about the genius of the minimalism mindset -- but obviously, that's missing the point of minimalism . espn.go.com

Production has begun at a Northrop Grumman plant in Moss Point on fuselages for a new line of surveillance drones. therepublic.com

Drones to Take Flight in Nepal 's War on Poachers. sciam.com

Usage in literature

The play droned on to the end of the interminable first act. "Black Oxen" by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Over the droning of the hymn she caught the sound of a horse's hoofs on the road. "The Manxman A Novel - 1895" by Hall Caine

M. de Reaumur also says a few words, somewhere, of a hive containing many more drones than workers, but advances no conjectures on the cause. "New observations on the natural history of bees" by Francis Huber

The music of the waking night-world droned on the scented air, emphasizing the calm, the delicious peace. "The Night Riders" by Ridgwell Cullum

The city has enacted "move on" laws intending to get rid of drones. "Negro Migration during the War" by Emmett J. Scott

As the Chief passed with his prisoner the wizard turned his eyes on the two, and then droned on. "Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective" by Ellis Parker Butler

He'd wake up in a minute and hear the drone of a ship on the line. "Astounding Stories, March, 1931" by Various

There are too many drones in England, living on the common produce of labor. "Flowers of Freethought" by George W. Foote

The motors droned on, coming nearer and nearer. "Aces Up" by Covington Clarke

On the outskirts of the village a mill-wheel droned lazily as the boys swung at scout's stride down the road. "The Wolf Patrol" by John Finnemore

Usage in poetry
The hucksters haggle in the mart
The cars and carts go by;
Senates and schools go droning on;
For dead things cannot die.
Beauty was here in on this beetle-droning downland;
The thought of a Caesar in the purple came
From the palace by the Tiber in the Roman townland
To this wind-swept hill with no name.
Now fades the glimm'ring landscape on the sight,
And all the air a solemn stillness holds,
Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,
And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds;
Over the fields of clover,
Where the wild bee drones and sways,
The wind, like a shepherd lover,
Flutes on the fragrant ways--
Heart of my heart, where the blossoms part,
What is the air he plays?
And then that someone spoke:
He sits here opposite me; I hear him croak
While he drones on: "You are animated clay,
Dead for all time, alive just for one day! ....
Death makes you nothing! . . . ."
Memory is on me of the warm dim chambers.
And the laughter of my friends in the huge high-ceilinged hall,
Lectures and the voices of the dons deep-droning,
The things that were so common once — God, I feel them all.