drone
to speak in a slow, monotonous tone without variation
Word origin: From Old English dran, a male bee, by association with its low humming.
Drone in a sentence
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The professor droned on for an hour, and half the students fell asleep.
The lecturer continued to drone about procedural minutiae until half the room had stopped taking notes.
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Critics complained that the documentary's narration was relentlessly blank, hammering home its single thesis so often that viewers felt lectured rather than informed.
Using “drone” well
Drone, as a verb, means to speak in a flat, tedious monotone, carrying a clear note of boredom. Do not confuse it with the noun drone, an aircraft or a male bee.
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