rumbling
Example Sentences
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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
Royal scandals increase the glare on issues rumbling beneath the surface.
From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026
As a kid rumbling by “the Joey P” in the backseat of my mom’s minivan, I never thought about what it really means to decorate a warship for Christmas.
From Salon • Dec. 24, 2025
He shifts effortlessly between bird’s-eye panoramas of battles and empires and close-up historical family dramas or images of himself rumbling along in a truck on dirt roads to visit the sites where things happened.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025
I carry my bag over my shoulder while my dad pulls his and my mom’s suitcases across the road, pausing for a car that comes rumbling.
From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.