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If you've ever stood on Park Avenue, Manhattan, and felt a subway train rumble by underfoot, you know what a typical quake feels like.

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 Meanings and Examples of RUMBLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rumble
 v.  utter or emit low dull sounds; move or proceed with a deep, long, rolling sound
Classic Sentence: (47 in 4 pages)
1  The ladies sewed while Archie lay full length on the parlor sofa snoring, his gray whiskers fluttering at each rumble.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
2  In the street the noise of wheels had ceased, and the rumble of the "elevated" came only at long intervals through the deep unnatural hush.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
3  There was a deafening rumble of thunder within his head.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
4  Suddenly there was a hollow rumble of drums.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
5  But I hear the rumble of wheels.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In I. A Scandal in Bohemia
6  And a new sound mingled with it, a deep, muttered rumble, musical and yet menacing, rising and falling like the low, constant murmur of the sea.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12. Death on the Moor
7  I have also had a rumble through the Ragged Shaw.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL
8  Amid the general rumble, the groans and voices of the wounded were more distinctly heard than any other sound in the darkness of the night.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI
9  The sound of voices, the tramping feet, the horses' hoofs moving in mud, the crackling of wood fires near and afar, merged into one tremulous rumble.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI
10  A rumble of Russian and French voices and laughter filled the air round the tables in the square.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XXI
11  He went towards the mounds, whence came the clank of the chains of sledges as they slipped down or were dragged up, the rumble of the sliding sledges, and the sounds of merry voices.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 9
12  The hiss of the boiler could be heard on the distant rails, and the rumble of something heavy.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 17
13  We rumble south in quite a business-like way.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
14  We seemed to rumble down an unknown street behind a little white bundle of posies, with the shadow of a song in our ears.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XI
15  Through the rumble of omnibuses, and the clatter of street-cabs, he could hear the droning voice devouring each minute that was left to him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
Example Sentence:
1  If you've ever stood on Park Avenue, Manhattan, and felt a subway train rumble by underfoot, you know what a typical quake feels like.
2  A low rumble is heard in the distance, suddenly Chodin comes over the horizon riding on a giant ant.
3  There are rumblings of annoyance throughout the workforce.
4  Recalled by the rumbling of wheels to the road before me, I saw a heavily-laden waggon laboring up the hill, and not far beyond were two cows and their drover.
5  He rumbled as he walked that it was simply unreasonable to treat him like this.
6  The machine rumbled as it started up.
7  A fully fledged ocean-crossing cable helps them detect all sorts of seismic rumbles; that would be a boon to geologists who focus on the Eurasian and African tectonic plates.
8  And still the row rumbles on over who is to blame for the steadily surging crime statistics.