Sentence examples for slight drone from inspiring English sources

But at a steady 50 m.p.h., also in eighth gear, the r.p.m. drops to 1,400, generating a slight drone that no 6-cylinder BMW ever produced.

On my preproduction test vehicle — Land Rover could not make a full production version available — there was a slight drone around 1,500 r.p.m. and a tiny vibration could be felt through the steering wheel.

Q magazine's Andrew Collins compared the song to The Auteurs as well as a "slightly menacing Free as a Bird", due to "a slight drone undulating in the foreground" and a "sweet, elongated coda busied by what sounds like an invasion of turkeys".

And, as the name suggests, the drone is just slight enough to fit into a pocket (albeit a pretty large one).

Datalinks can also go down without help from an enemy.A related problem afflicting today's drones is the slight delay between the remote pilot sending an instruction to the aircraft and its response (known as latency).

On the other hand, some ideas and juxtapositions are brilliant, like Giacinto Scelsi's "Trio For Strings," with its slight dips and rises in string drones, leading into Santo and Johnny's steel-guitar, beachcomber-kitsch "Sleep Walk".

The gimbal allows for slight left and right movement, but the drone must rotate to provide any additional panning.

But Bauer had a slight mishap while repairing one of his drones last Thursday – less than 48 hours before he was supposed to start in an ALCS game.

Enough statistics and raw data on the U.S.'s two-headed drone assault are maybe now dribbling out that, however slight or shortsighted, we can start sizing up the scope of America's grey, semi-autonomous war machine.

Although based on a "minor drone-blues" in the line of "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)", Hendrix's performance has been compared to jazz saxophonist John Coltrane's approach to improvisation.

The songs are characterized by droning harmonies, simple chord progression, keyboard ostinatos, ringing guitar, resounding reverb, slight bass grooves, and programmed beats.