rumble
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Some of the damaged buildings groaned with each new rumble of the earth, as Venezuela endured more aftershocks.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
While the afternoons blazed, Tim sailed Melville’s waves of prose, alert to the rumble of an epic whale beneath their surface.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Students pass the hostel on their way to lectures as aeroplanes rumble overhead every few minutes.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
The plant’s low rumble reverberated across the surrounding desert, unusually green from a recent rain.
From Salon ● May 10, 2026
No sooner had Dot disappeared than I heard the rumble of a car.
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm
Ultimately, the tracks would be complemented with multiple sound walls and shields, the latter clear structures designed to block coaster rumbles and audience screams.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
In Tottenham, he performs alongside videos of his old friend on a version of Feel Good Inc that rumbles like a juggernaut.
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
As the first-quarter earnings season rumbles on, those lofty expectations have looked justified so far: The pace of earnings growth reported by firms so far has dramatically surpassed analysts’ expectations.
From MarketWatch ● May 3, 2026
The plans come as a months-long diplomatic row between Japan and China over comments Takaichi made on Taiwan rumbles on.
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026
The car engine rumbles and the bass of the stereo makes the seat vibrate, but I don’t drive off.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
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When I asked if they wanted to visit Delilah at her store, Cosmo would thunder down the hallway toward our front door, while Hook rumbled behind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Last year, more than 1.8 million trucks rumbled across the aging aquamarine span, which opened in 1929 and is one of the continent’s busiest land-border crossings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
All around this one personal tragedy are the sights and smells of many others from that moment Wednesday evening when the earth abruptly groaned and rumbled with quakes measuring 7.2 and 7.5, in rapid succession.
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026
Elijah Just rumbled toward the box and seemed to pinball around the Iranian defense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
He licked his cracked Bps involuntarily at the same time Koffi’s stomach audibly rumbled.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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Car companies boast it’s exactly what modern buyers crave: More iPhone on wheels, less rumbling, mechanical machine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
But if these rumbling premonitions have remained true across multiple eras of an ever-evolving media landscape, have we really learned anything?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Thousands of metres beneath the ground, amid suffocating heat, lies one of the keys to Poland's rumbling mining sector -- and the world economy.
From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026
There was a deep rumbling as a sheet of brilliant white flame suddenly erupted, momentarily engulfing the whole launch pad as the mightiest rocket Nasa has ever built rose into the sky.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2026
She let out another low rumbling sob that sounded like the earth shifting beneath our feet, splitting the world right in two.
From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender
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