drone

Object

• guitar: Even the hint of a tune would have been lost beneath the shouted vocals and droning guitar.

Adjective modifier

• unmanned: Iraqi gunners have shot down unmanned Predator spy drones.
• pilotless: On 15 May Indonesian Special Forces members rescued the last nine hostages after locating them with a pilotless drone.
• mindless: The mindless drone of people going to offices doing a job that they quite frankly hate.
• steady: Get the help of someone who has won a number of premium prizes to pick a good set of steady drones.
• constant: The constant drone of the art for art's sake zeppelin casts a long shadow over cultural policy.
• continuous: Let instruments in the same range as the vocals stab or play a continuous drone.

Modifies a noun

• brood: They should be replaced by a comb of drone brood, larvae or sealed, from a good colony.
• reed: The drone reeds are usually like the ones in clarinets - single reeds.
• aircraft: The Predator drone aircraft was on a reconnaissance mission, the Pentagon said.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• on: And we could actually drone on for quite awhile about studies linking more fat in the diet with better blood fats in athletes.

Preposition: of

• bomber: By now, father and son could hear the threatening drone of the bombers as they approached Bath.
• bee: Also in the air mixing with the drone of the bees was a series of ' yelps!
• plane: Sounds from the street drift up, the drone of a plane drifts down.

Noun used with modifier

• tenor: I make a Renaissance version by fitting a tenor drone in a common stock with the bass drone.
• predator: Iraqi gunners have shot down unmanned Predator spy drones.
• bass: The double bass drone can be of compact form with a triple bore in the lower joint or of full length for spectacular effect.
• surveillance: In April 2006, Iran said it shot down a U.S. surveillance drone flying over the country.
• keyboard: The keyboard drones and warp out effects are a bit too minimal to start with but build later on and really strengthen the material.