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

A north San Diego County resident said rumbling from the temblor lasted about 15 seconds.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 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 can hear the rumbling of the train.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse