rumbling
AmericanEtymology
Origin of rumbling
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; rumble, -ing 1
Example Sentences
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We work quickly as distant, rumbling thunder threatens to destroy our secret project.
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He could hear the beasts now in their field nearby, rumbling and snuffling to one another as the sun began to dip behind the Mountain.
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He heard a deep rumbling sound in the distance.
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Why should pizzas be on the way when she already had a refrigerator bursting with food and the boy had gone to school so many days with his stomach rumbling, his head aching?
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Then he heard it: a rumbling, deep in the earth.
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