It was then they all heard the droning of the planes.

There was no sound except the droning of a bee.

Suddenly she couldn't stand the apologetic droning of his voice.

I closed my eyes and listened to the droning of the engine.

From the grill of the mask came a flat droning.

But for the droning of the beesi that was the only sound.

The droning of the planes made it difficult at times to hear, including the remarks by both leaders.

For several minutes the only sound was the droning of the plump insects.

Only the low droning of prayer came from Father Michael.

Then he heard the droning of the smoke, though he could still not believe its nature.

"That" was a sound, like a low droning, gradually building in pitch.

The only sound in the violated tent was the steady droning of flies.

She closed her eyes and listened to the droning of the knights' voices as they talked.

If this is "pointless droning," we need lots more of it.

They could hear the droning of aeroplanes becoming distant.

The only noise it made was the droning of its Mercedes motor, and even that seemed a little strange.

The children waited in breathless silence, trying to ignore the droning of the stone behind them.

There was a low hum coming from the Eye, like the droning of bees about to swarm.

The silence dragged on, broken only by the droning of that desolate wind.

The steady droning of the engine buzzed down, like a giant bee.

The engine of the plane ceased its harsh droning.

Eventually, the scientist finished his endless droning, and then touched a control on one of the devices he was holding.

And, behind the noises of the weather, a faint and distant droning.

And as yet he didn't hear the heavy droning of the four-engine propeller craft.

Rochelle's voice sounded faint against the distant droning of an incoming plane.

May I live to see the day you're really droned!

Soon they were droning back to their own side of the lines.

And finally, at the third door, they heard a voice droning quietly.

"Probably because it's the same information that I've droned every time you've come in here."

Low down in his throat he was making a kind of droning sound.

Then I heard a voice droning away in the courtroom.

Chapter 4 Three days of no sound but what droned from the television set.

For a moment the great engines droned on, then they cut out.

Then the father of the bride got up and droned on for 35 minutes.

They droned across the dark field and climbed into the night.

Right now he was droning on about the painting he'd bought at a recent art show.

Even as he droned on about one thing, his mind raced ahead to the next.

"I am sure it seemed a bit droning for you.

He droned on as Thomas turned his attention to the schedule.

He had to take her, droned through his now dazed mind.

Voices seemed to drone into his consciousness from far away.

He stumbled down the hall and the voice droned on behind him.

Every once in a while, airplanes would drone by overhead.

The latter looked at it, but proceeded to drone on.

A television droned from the dark interior of the apartment.

He continued to drone on as we enjoyed our breakfast.

"It was the same routine every day for six or seven years," he droned.

And while the flies droned in morning heat, the two men talked.

First something was trying to drone us to sleep, but that didn't work for them.

Back at the house Vicki sat reading the paper while the television droned on.

After a while she heard his voice as a kind of drone.

She put the drone and the man into the hold.

He usually put the drone at the center of them.

In the last year, several of the drones have been lost.

No one is to know where the drones have gone.

It was possible to work out where the drone had come from.

He would know far more about this drone than anyone else.

It was the third drone lost over Iraq in less than two months.

This is the guy who took on a military drone by himself just a week ago.

He went clear to the back end of the drone, quite a walk in itself.

He may have put his child in a bad situation, but we were the ones with the drone.

No one will hear me over the drone of progress.

The drone stopped as though it had hit a wall.

Tell him to lose any record of where those drones have gone.

He refused to ask for help with the drone, of course.

But once there, the drones had learned something far more important.

He heard the drone of words but his mind was elsewhere.

He could hear the drone of her voice through the closed door, however.

This drone was close to the fight, but not in it yet.

I could hear the drone of their conversation but not the words.

I'll put some drones on that to start, and we'll see what they come up with.

She looked round the room the drone had brought her to.

A drone from Contact had come to speak to him one day.

"Our drones will just have to take them all out," she said.

That was one way a few drones could indeed take out many.