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Recent Examples of rumble
Verb
As aftershocks rumbled and tsunami warnings rang out, teachers hurried the children to higher ground behind the school.—Stephen J. Nesbitt, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025 Family Farms is Broward County’s lone strawberry u-pick, home to 10 acres of strawberry plants, along with cows, chickens, bunnies and tractor hayrides that rumble to life on the weekends.—Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
Readers are shown the likely son of a gardener planting the seeds of literature in Mesopotamia, the jungle shaman carefully hovering over the bones of the dead in the Amazon and the first rumbles of the Minotaur in the Mediterranean.—Joe Sills, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024 In this study, a team used machine-learning methods to analyze recordings of 469 calls or ‘rumbles’ made by wild African elephant female–offspring groups in the Amboseli National Park and Samburu and Buffalo Springs National Reserves in Kenya.—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 25 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for rumble
While several teams reportedly grumbled about the terms behind closed doors, the weight of financial considerations and potential consequences, such as losing charter status, compelled many to accept the deal.
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Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
3 Jan. 2025
There had been plenty of grumbling about his aging, although in fairness much of it came from anonymous sources griping to the press, and some complaints had an ableist ring to them.
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