rumble

Example Sentences

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It swoops down playfully in “A Black Song,” over a swung rumble of drumbeats.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

"It was a rumble and then a bang," one resident told AFP, asking not to be named.

From Barron's • Feb. 28, 2026

Dystopian military vehicles straight out of Mad Max rumble past, encased in their own cages of steel and netting.

From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026

Planes continually rumble overhead in Walter Thompson-Hernández’s “If I Go Will They Miss Me,” shot on location at Nickerson Gardens in Watts under the flight path to LAX.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026

Then the entire ground starts to rumble, shaking my thoughts from me.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer