Sentence examples for dull drone from inspiring English sources
If the cloth, blown by the fans, touches the wires, we get a sound, a dull drone.
This time of the year I hear the geese honking in major thirds as they fly in V-formation overhead, the crunch of leaves underfoot and the sharper, perennial sounds their absence from the limbs yields, as well as the flat, dull drone of leaf-blowers.
So you can hear people talking (though their voices sound a little "tinny"), but the dull drone of a plane's engines is significantly reduced.
There's a sound of dull drone in the room courtesy of some hidden speakers.
Only the dull drone of the refrigerator and the low whirr of the AC unit trouble the silence.
"There are a couple of them that I think are a scream". There is a song for every childhood woe — from receiving teddy bears instead of gift cards from Grandma, to the dull drone of standardized testing.
Spufford the fabulist conjures up the fluorescent dead-dull drone of Soviet life, the post-Stalin, pre-Brezhnev heyday, flowing with dread and promises, a realm where briefcases bang "hollow" on knees, clouds "unzipped their bellies and let down the snow," skin in banyas (bathhouses) looks "like willow-pattern china" and wheat fields "smell like bakery dust".
Nobody (ever) wants to sit there and listen to someone drone on and on in dull monotone, no matter how interesting the material (think Professor Binns from Harry Potter; that's what you don't want).
I miss my old life – the dull, companionable drone of marriage and the analgesia of motherhood, my chattering, once ever-present younger children and their ever-present needs.
Huh? Keva might have intended the word ironically, but he delivers this line in the same dull, unsmiling drone as all the others, so it's a bit bewildering.
Less mythic than monstrous It's understandable that the play has often been labelled as anti-war, both by those for whom this constitutes high praise and by those for whom Mother Courage is evidence that Brecht, writing an ostensibly pacifist text in 1939, supported the Hitler-Stalin non-aggression treaty, thereby unmasking himself as a dull Stalinist drone.
