| Throughout the entire class I fought to keep myself awake as the teacher droned on in monotone. |
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| Then he droned on for an hour, so softly I could hardly hear a word over the post-dinner chitchat. |
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| The screams of tormented toddlers rang out yesterday, as she droned gorily to a close. |
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| His attention was upon Mrs. Evans, who droned on about the project unfalteringly. |
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| He was dozing gently in the autumn sunshine when a late blowfly droned past, rousing him for his soporific state. |
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| Mrs. Anderson droned slowly and warily, looking him over with a jaundiced eye. |
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| The engine droned, its pitch climbing and dropping according to how hard the drag had to work smoothing the trail. |
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| The dull thump of the bass beat of some unknown song droned on, providing a never-ending soundtrack to the party. |
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| Roth droned and then walked over to shove his feet into a pair of black skateboarding shoes with checkered shoelaces. |
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| My mother droned on about how unthankful I was for not appreciating her good will towards me. |
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| The air conditioner droned in that maddening old machine way, but it was too hot to not have the thing on. |
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| As Mr Brown droned on and on, delivering possibly the dullest speech of his life, she fell asleep. |
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| His voice droned and buzzed in Sean's ears like a hovering bee, more so today than any other day. |
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| The cicadas droned all the way home, joined by grasshoppers who sounded like gadgets of gears and springs. |
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| No one listened as telly pundits Lineker, Hanson and O'Neill droned on, and then, as the teams lined up, mine host killed the volume and put on Three Lions. |
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| Then I stopped the mower, and the cicadas droned on, on, on. |
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| He had heard that Mileson was very hands-on but still couldn't believe his eyes during an early team talk as the sound of a vacuum cleaner droned in the background. |
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| It was cold and hard against my ear, but the dial tone droned on clearly. |
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| The low, humming buzz from the many computer screens droned constantly on. |
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| The voice of the teacher droned on monotonously about some mathematical formula, but the normally attentive teenager had other things on his mind. |
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| He droned on and on about some friend of his sister's who he saw last Christmas and who looked exactly the same after ten years of not seeing her. |
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| They had begged, pleaded, droned on and on until in the end I gave in. |
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| As speakers droned on from the podium doing the preliminary parliamentary business of the convention, a game show process began. |
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| As the professor droned on and on in the overheated lecture hall, Kim was overcome with such hebetude that she had to fight to keep her eyes open. |
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| The economists droned out about monetary policy, fiscal policy, and other policies. Still, I did get to see the inside of Lancaster House. |
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| The debate on fuel duty in the House of Commons this week droned on for hours and hours. |
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| Here insects droned and whirred, while from afar came the frightened shriek of a night bird. |
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| As I sat there entranced, as though I were on the sunlit plane of a different world, the chants of the lamas droned on. |
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| The vuvuzelas droned as loud as ever, but they were complemented throughout the 90 minutes by a choir numbering some 50 souls. |
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| A mysterious peace reigned over the village and the harmonious prayer droned in the church. |
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| We were nearing the classroom where Mr. Pegro, the most unexcitable teacher at Battle Ground Academy droned about various aspects of history and current events. |
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| Ealstan's master of herblore droned on and on about the mystical properties of plants. |
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| The welfare worker encouraged the applicant to find employment or help elsewhere, but the apathetic young woman droned out her story over and over as if she were deaf to every word that was said to her. |
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| In the background over a portable megaphone, the crackling voice of a Ministry of Health worker droned over the barren hills of Wadra Rahhal, about 20 minutes drive from the West Bank town of Bethlehem. |
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| They droned on in the nude, parabolically speaking. |
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| It was all very well me wanting tradition but the days of the spitoon are over etc, etc, he droned. |
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| As he droned on about how I might improve, my young associate provided us with something that perfectly summed up how I was feeling: he pooped in his pants. |
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| For the rival side, the overearnest Natalie Lowe droned on about her partner. |
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| Even the dear old peeress who rather elegantly – though accidentally, she later said – raised two fingers to her fellow peer Lord King as he droned on about her age has been taken to task. |
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| Today for his speech at noon, the Prime Minister drove to the Chateau. Then while he droned on and on, the Prime Minister's massive SUV sat idling outside spewing greenhouse gases. |
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| As both wars droned on, Tillman, the picture perfect poster boy, evolved into something of a wild card. |
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| It was always a pleasure at sub-faculty meetings to watch him ostentatiously working his way through the week's crop of offprints while the routine business droned on. |
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| The professor droned on boringly, putting his class to sleep. |
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