The rumbling rolling sound of thunder. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
They heard the rumbling of thunder. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used without object) : The train rumbled on. ,Rival gangs rumbled on Saturday afternoon. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : to rumble a command. ,to rumble a wagon over the ground. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : the rumble of tanks across a bridge. From Dictionary.com.
Resulting in much rumbling from the allies, but no serious intervention. From Wordnik.com. [Cheeseburger Gothic » A Sweet Jane alt-hist challenge!] Reference
Syracuse went ahead 7-0 late in the first quarter, despite some early rumbling from the home crowd. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Scores] Reference
PICCIOTTO: What happened was the rumbling was the South Tower collapsing. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 5, 2002] Reference
But whether the rumbling is the noise of ongoing battle or else the digestive. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Report Finds Girls' Schools in Afghanistan Face Highest Risk of Violence; Suggests Steps for Preventing Attacks] Reference
'This then was the noise I heard,' I said; 'the rumbling was the falling of the earth; the shriek was the tearing down of trees.'. From Wordnik.com. [Aylwin] Reference
It has been described as a "rumbling" noise, but I think "gurgling" is better. From Wordnik.com. [The Emma Gees] Reference
Hugo Van Diest, from the deeps of a big arm chair, omitted a kind of rumbling affirmative. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
Now it was uttering sounds, too, a kind of rumbling, and the other cries began to subside. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Piper]
One day he was standing looking at the mountain opposite, when he heard a kind of rumbling noise in the room behind him. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Fairy Book] Reference
'Definitely something, not the usual screech of brakes, or tyres when people take the bend too fast, but just a kind of rumbling, I guess.'. From Wordnik.com. [Sepulchre]
"The noise of the rumbling was the most surreal thing. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Why had he designated the train as "rumbling" along the cut?. From Wordnik.com. [Success A Novel] Reference
It was a kind of rumbling, gurgling sound, sometimes loud and sometimes soft. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret of Killimooin]
The thunderous rumbling of a struc-tural collapse. From Wordnik.com. [Reliving a Nightmare] Reference
Once the rumbling ended, I found myself in silent darkness. From Wordnik.com. [My Story, September 11, 2001] Reference
Tire rumbling and road noise do penetrate cabin sometimes. "". From Wordnik.com. [From the logbook: 2011 Hyundai Sonata] Reference
I was running and the world was rumbling and you weren't moving. From Wordnik.com. [The Undertaker's Son] Reference
Expect lots and lots of bass-rumbling from DJ duo Dave Nada and Matt Nordstrom. From Wordnik.com. [Best of Whartscape: Previewing Baltimore's biggest underground music festival] Reference
The sound of a record started and humming monks drowned out the rumbling motor. From Wordnik.com. [The Impossible Man - Ep. 10: Round 1.] Reference
"We heard rumbling and it was pitch black, and there was wind and shaking," he remembers. From Wordnik.com. [The Heroes] Reference
He is staying clean here as well, keeping any rumbling of discontent quiet and away from the media. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Brandt: Tom Brady, Peyton Manning and Their Expiring Contracts] Reference
By then, the truck was rumbling down the main highway toward Prizren, the major city of southern Kosovo. From Wordnik.com. [’Daddy, They’Re Killing Us’] Reference
Artistically, however, his rumbling egoism and adherence to principles ultimately made him one of the greats. From Wordnik.com. [A MEETING OF THE MINDS] Reference
What's to stop us then from rumbling into one war after another because we can't come up with a reason not to?. From Wordnik.com. [Living On Half Beam] Reference
I never thought I would see something in Iraq that enticing, but there it was, rumbling past in all its glory. From Wordnik.com. [Why We Need a Draft: A Marine’s Lament] Reference
Thomas Junta's lawyer says Costin allegedly told Junta that high sticks and rumbling were simply part of the game. From Wordnik.com. ['We Live In A Very Angry Society, A Very Violent Society'] Reference
TODAY SHE LIVES IN BONN AND TEACHES GERMAN. The terrible rumbling and thunder of the bombs lasted about 30 minutes. From Wordnik.com. [Dresden In Flames] Reference
The 100 or so cases that the court will hear this term will, as always, reflect many of the tensions rumbling through America. From Wordnik.com. [Uneasy Days In Court] Reference
The blockade along the Drina River has been spotty, at best, with supply trucks rumbling regularly across bridges into Bosnia. From Wordnik.com. [What If We Do Nothing?] Reference
Who's nearest to mimicking the rumbling bass voice that was ever so slightly sibilant, that could pivot in a syllable from wry to grave?. From Wordnik.com. [‘Me and Orson Welles’: The Boy-Wonder Years] Reference
Short and rounded, his Viennese accent rumbling professorially, Grunwald was saved from pomposity by a quick wit, especially about himself. From Wordnik.com. [A MAN OF SUBSTANCE] Reference
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