Definition of Droningly

1. Adverb. With a droning sound. ¹

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Definition of Droningly

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Droningly

dronedarone
dronelike
dronepipe
dronepipes
droner
droners
drones
droney
drongo
drongoe
drongoes
drongos
dronier
droniest
droning
droningly
dronings
dronish
dronkelewe
dronkverdriet
dronte
drony
droodle
droodles
droog
droogish
droogs
drook
drooked
drooking

Literary usage of Droningly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Similes by Frank Jenners Wilstach (1916)
"Droned in sweetness like a fattened bee. — CG ROSSETTI. Droningly. Droningly . . . like the sigh of the bleak south wind through the forest, like the crash ..."

2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1915)
"... droningly, scarcely intelligibly, but an electric spark could not have crackled through that darkening room with greater effect. ..."

3. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"resumed the White Linen Nurse, droningly. Very slowly, very complacently, all around them April kept right on being April. Very slowly, very complacently, ..."

4. Godey's Magazine by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1896)
"... droningly, lingeringly sung. A second verse is lined out, and in the same manner sung ; and thus it goes on, verse by verse, to the end. ..."

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