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  • adverb With a droning sound.

Etymologies

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droning +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Andrew Bovell's droningly drab multigenerational saga of a comprehensively unhappy Anglo-Australian family, is more than a little bit phone-booky, Mr. Cromer's best efforts notwithstanding.

    Some Formerly Famous Faces Terry Teachout 2010

  • Andrew Bovell's droningly drab multigenerational saga of a comprehensively unhappy Anglo-Australian family, is more than a little bit phone-booky, Mr. Cromer's best efforts notwithstanding.

    Some Formerly Famous Faces Terry Teachout 2010

  • Andrew Bovell's droningly drab multigenerational saga of a comprehensively unhappy Anglo-Australian family, is more than a little bit phone-booky, Mr. Cromer's best efforts notwithstanding.

    Some Formerly Famous Faces Terry Teachout 2010

  • I hope it now more accurately, and less droningly, reflects the subject matter of A Commonplace Blog.

    A new subtitle 2009

  • ‘The Pink Room’ is one of my favorite pieces of film and rock music, a simple, droningly freaky stomper.

    David Lynch’s Next Release Is Another Album | /Film 2009

  • Judith had continued her unquiet pacing in the blinding glare while the group within doors, somnolent from the heat and the incessant shrilling of the locusts, droningly discussed the faithlessness of Mountain Pink, dozed, and took up the thread of the romance.

    Judith of the Plains Marie Manning

  • It startled and it moved him because he made a certain effort of imagination and “read it freshly like a book” and not “droningly and dully” like a portion of the Bible at home.

    Life of Robert Louis Stevenson by Alexander Harvey 1913

  • After looking all around, he droningly calls the hour of eleven, enjoins the people to be on guard against phantoms and spooks, that no evil spirit may work harm to their souls, and so let God the Lord be praised!

    The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

  • These were my own thoughts as I listened to the tones of the priest as they came, droningly, out of the door, while Nick was exchanging jokes in doubtful French with some half-breeds leaning against the palings.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • These were my own thoughts as I listened to the tones of the priest as they came, droningly, out of the door, while Nick was exchanging jokes in doubtful French with some half-breeds leaning against the palings.

    The Crossing Winston Churchill 1909

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