How to Use drone in a Sentence

drone

1 of 2 noun
  • The drones lit up the rocks and kept an eye on the climbers.
    — Sarah Horbacewicz, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • But don’t try to outrun the drone.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Levine wanted his drones back in the air.
    — Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 28 Apr. 2026
  • No drones, grills or horses of your own.
    — Sean Clancy, Baltimore Sun, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The drone covers the same ground in four.
    — Michelle Williams, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • There were dozens more attack drones in our skies.
    — Washington Examiner Staff, The Washington Examiner, 17 Oct. 2025
  • There’s so many drones flying around.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 20 May 2026
  • The drones failed to launch or missed their targets.
    — Seth Harp, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The video ends abruptly when the drone hits the stash.
    — Svitlana Vlasova, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025
  • But drones present new challenges.
    — Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Ukraine’s naval drones are evolving again.
    — David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • If drone footage below doesn't load, click here.
    — IndyStar, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Iran will still be able to launch missiles and one-way drones.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 5 Mar. 2026
  • At the end of the night, a drone and fireworks show will take place.
    — Sarah Perkel, USA Today, 4 July 2026
  • Their drone was there in 30 seconds.
    — Eric Ryan, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • There was no word on whether any of the drone strikes had reached their targets.
    — CBS News, 9 June 2026
  • Even herds that roam free on the open range are microchipped and trailed by drones.
    — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The origin or purpose of the drone flights is not yet clear.
    — David Brennan, ABC News, 25 Sep. 2025
  • My hope was to see its response to the rise of drone warfare.
    — Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2026
  • At one point, a robot and a drone were deployed.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, USA Today, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Two drones buzzed overhead, and a chopper was up.
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Want to get into drone flying but aren't sure where to start?
    — Chris McMullen, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The video shows the drone taking the knife from the suspect.
    — Steve Large, CBS News, 22 June 2026
  • And, at one point, a robot and a drone were deployed.
    — Andrea May Sahouri, Freep.com, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Now, drones are ubiquitous on the front lines.
    — Joseph Nepomuceno, The Washington Examiner, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The armed forces said that no further drones were observed.
    — ABC News, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Teams should launch the drone within three minutes.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Sudan's army also is equipped with drones.
    — ABC News, 24 June 2026
  • The drone used in the incident.
    — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The males, or drones, serve only one purpose, to mate with the queen.
    — Elizabeth Bass Parman, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025

drone

2 of 2 verb
  • We could hear wasps droning in the garden.
  • The room was damp and stuffy, despite a fan droning loudly in the corner.
    — Zoya Qureshi, The Atlantic, 31 July 2023
  • Native bees drone in sunlit meadows; warblers flit between new shrubs.
    — Ben Goldfarb, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Cartel drones a serious threat That is not to make light of drone incursions.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 11 Feb. 2026
  • True, some faculty prefer to drone on in Zoom classes for their own convenience.
    — Ann Kirschner, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Almost like a Dobro — if anyone's familiar with that — with a droning tone on it.
    — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Instead, there’s a surplus of annoying, droning noise.
    — Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 11 June 2026
  • Living rooms welcome the ambient tones of squeaking sneakers and droning cheer squads.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Vince Lombardi’s voice droned from the public address system.
    — Matthew Odam, Austin American Statesman, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Bombers droned across the night sky as soldiers scrambled onto the beachhead, taking cover behind huts and clusters of palm trees.
    — David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
  • The harsh grinding of the elevated cable system is heard over low droning music.
    — John Penner, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Some have proposed Special Forces raids, others drone strikes, others naval blockades.
    — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The Liberty buds cut both the droning noise from the bus's engine and random sounds, such as the doors opening and closing.
    — Christian De Looper, PC Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • Grey-zone tactics refer to a range of aggressive tactics varying from navy ship patrols to drone flights but fall short of direct combat.
    — ABC News, 24 June 2026
  • The recitation of Islam’s dawn prayers droned softly from a nearby mosque, and somewhere nearby, a rooster began to crow.
    — Vivian Nereim Andrea Dicenzo, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Other times, the book sounds like a droning Christmas-card letter, as Sarkozy endlessly tallies his friends and foes.
    — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2025
  • Helicopters roar overhead, reminding me that last week people were worried the Oscars were going to get droned.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Here, a morning coffee on the sea-view private sun terrace comes complete with diving swifts and droning dragonflies, not to mention the sound of pulling tides.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 May 2026
  • Just as droning strings can transform a humdrum street into a threatening alley, Fang uses her sound effects to prime our emotions.
    — WIRED, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Everybody knows that the music starts playing when someone is taking up too much time with their acceptance speech, but awards shows have long been selective about who gets to drone on and who gets cut off.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Programming, scholarship, and—the event’s steadily droning core—a 25-hour cover-to-cover reading of the great book itself.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Whereas the film is madcap and edgy—even bratty—the Wuthering Heights album is sullen and stately, built upon strings and droning electronics.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Looking almost too large to fly, these bumblebees drone loudly, bringing the noises of the growing season before very much is actually in active growth.
    — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 10 Feb. 2023
  • But before the internet, if someone were to drone on about fluoride in the drinking water, for instance, their comments weren’t likely to become national news.
    — David Klepper, chicagotribune.com, 16 Aug. 2021
  • But before the internet, if someone were to drone on about fluoride in the drinking water, for instance, their comments weren't likely to become national news.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2021
  • Mercedes’s contribution to this sonic uprising is a clanging, droning soundtrack drawn from the sounds made by throwing bullet casings into a crucible.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2023
  • That said, the car's continuously variable automatic transmission has a tendency to drone the engine.
    — Nicholas Wallace, Car and Driver, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The result is the drifting synth waltzes and accordion laments, a set that transmutes the instrument’s droning tones into a sweep of introspective, breath-catching moments of beauty.
    — Pitchfork, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Elsewhere in the packinghouse, printers would whirr and the steam-hiss of sanitizing equipment would drone for 10 hours a day, six days a week and only rest, like the workers, on Sundays.
    — Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 24 Aug. 2023
  • As far as Garland’s projects go, Devs comes closest to matching the paranoia and droning anxiety of the multi-hyphenate’s literary work.
    — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Jan. 2026

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