How to Use drone on in a Sentence

drone on

phrasal verb

• Schleicher didn’t drone on about the box scores of a state semifinal run.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 12 Apr. 2024
• The new Joker drone is part of a growing trend toward drones on the battlefield.
  — Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2023
• Trains slid by on the tracks, and an attendant droned on an overhead speaker.
  — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 1 Jan. 2024
• And, once Ren’s finished, the five of us crowd in the living room, sipping noodles while the television drones on.
  — Bryan Washington, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2023
• Rescuers used divers and drones on the reservoir the Tahoe National Forest.
  — Vincent Medina, Sacramento Bee, 8 July 2024
• Rescuers used boats and drones on the creek in both directions, as well as on both sides of the Delaware River where the creek meets it.
  — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 24 Mar. 2024
• James Clemens flies drones during practice to video every rep and has tethered drones on Friday nights to get a bird’s-eye view of the field.
  — Jimmy Lay, al, 8 Aug. 2023
• The interview drones on like this for another three minutes or so before coming to the greatest gift of all: The end.
  — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 24 Dec. 2023
• Earlier this month, an oil refinery in Krasnodar was attacked by drones on two straight days.
  — Susie Blann and Elise Morton, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2023
• This risk of future is what prompted Boulder officials to announce the switch to drones on Facebook.
  — Michael Roppolo, CBS News, 3 July 2023
• The piece -- a red stop sign with three military drones on it -- debuted at the corner of Commercial Way on Friday.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 23 Dec. 2023
• This year, for the first time in history, Ukraine and Russia are building drones on an industrial scale.
  — Lorenz Meier, TIME, 13 Aug. 2024
• Kamikaze Drones One of the most dangerous types of drones on the Ukrainian battlefield is the kamikaze drone, which is designed for one-way missions, launched, and then flown over the battlefield.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2023
• Two people who could’ve drowned after their truck fell into a sinkhole in Colorado were saved thanks to an 18-year-old and his drone on Saturday.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 27 June 2023
• The Russian authorities gave no further details about the drone on Sunday.
  — Anushka Patil, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
• Dramatic video released by the Ukrainian Air Force shows one drone on fire, falling from the sky and landing in a field — causing a large cloud of smoke but no visible damage.
  — Lauren Kent, CNN, 31 July 2024
• While the counteroffensive rages, Russian forces have continued to fire missiles and launch drones on Ukrainian towns and villages.
  — Cassandra Vinograd, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2023
• La Teste-de-Buch, a town near Bordeaux that was ravaged by wildfires last year, organized a light show involving 400 drones on Thursday night.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 14 July 2023
• As the debate has droned on, neither party has seriously tried to grapple with the biggest issue: Just how many immigrants does the U.S. need?
  — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2024
• Winners droned on with a laundry list of thank-yous, reminiscing with obscure anecdotes and humorless jokes.
  — Merrie Spaeth, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2023
• Earlier this month, an oil refinery in Krasnodar was attacked by drones on two consecutive days.
  — Susie Blann, USA TODAY, 26 May 2023
• Other Ukrainian drones have been used to sink or severely damage Russian warships in the Black Sea, and tanks and armored vehicles have fallen prey to drones on the battlefield.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 10 June 2024
• The president continues to drone on and on about the pipe dream of a two-state solution, as if any peaceful family should have to tolerate living next door to a serial killer.
  — Mike Pence, National Review, 12 Jan. 2024
• The screen then also shows grenades dropped from drones on the Russians, apparently killing or incapacitating them.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Mar. 2024
• IMUs lose accuracy after a few minutes, but that’s long enough to keep a drone on course if defenses interfere with its satellite guidance.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 21 Apr. 2023
• But over more than 300 episodes, not once has Ward let a conversation drone on, a topic overstay its welcome, or a quiet moment grow into awkwardness.
  — Vulture, 25 Oct. 2023
• Their strategy is now being used to help land drones on aircraft carriers, and Boeing plans to test it on an experimental aircraft this year.
  — Steve Nadis, WIRED, 4 Feb. 2024
• The sources say that Wineman’s complaint twists the narrative to create a nefarious-sounding environment in which Fuller droned on about his predilections.
  — Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 2 Nov. 2023
• The brutal fighting over the eastern city of Bakhmut captured attention; so, too, the incessant barrage of Russian missiles and drones on civilian areas of Ukraine, including cities far from the main battlefields of the war.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 11 June 2023
• But Russia’s ability to mass produce its drones on an industrial scale is also a pressing problem.
  — Yurii Shyvala, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024