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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• People would wax rhapsodic about Lillard’s play, express blind belief in anyone on the team, point to clutch victories, and drone on and on about national media disrespect.
  — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2023
• With Russia continually learning from its combat experiences, the trend is for even greater use of unmanned drones on and above Ukraine’s battlefields.
  — Joseph Ataman, CNN, 31 Jan. 2024
• Kyiv has denied any direct involvement in the attacks on Russia’s territory, including in the western regions and in Moscow, which was hit by drones on Tuesday.
  — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
• Overnight strikes by Russian missiles and attack drones on the Black Sea port city of Odesa have just killed three people, wounded others, destroyed apartments and businesses, and forced the closure of major traffic arteries.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 July 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024