How to use rumbling in a sentence

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• The giant spoke in a deep, bass, rumbling voice that shook me to my boots.From the entry bass
• I could hear the thunder rumbling in the distance.From the entry rumble
• Cacophonous peals of squealing feedback, raspy guitar scratches, caveman drums and a violent rumbling bass.2006, Iain McIntyre, Tomorrow is Today: Australia in the Psychedelic Era, 1966-1970, Kent Town, SA: Wakefield Press, page 16. From the entry caveman drums
• To my left, a voice was rumbling querulously, emanating from a grizzled and bewaistcoated, badger-like figure.2001, Michael Fishwick, Smashing People, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 47. From the entry bewaistcoated
• There is rumbling and earthquaking deep within Pinatubo and increased earthquaking within Mayon.1993, Gyeorgos C. Hatonn, The Best of Times: The Worst of Times, page 129. From the entry earthquake
• Beyond radio and exhaust and valvechatter he could hear thunder rumbling away over the bewept hills.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 134. From the entry bewept
• The outing begins by Thursday noon, when the recreational vehicles start rumbling into town and their owners set up bivouacs.September 23, 2005, Boston Globe. From the entry bivouac
• Did I detenct Father's deep and rumbling baritone in the chorus which accompanied my wife's first bhajan of the evening?1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 396. From the entry bhajan
• He was a whole deckful of loose cannons, rumbling this way and that with the pitch of every wave.1994, Jack Butler, Living in Little Rock with Miss Little Rock, →ISBN, page 98. From the entry deckful
• A rumbling bassline and Jerry Cantrell’s blunderbuss of a voice are chained to Big Guitar Sounds to curiously strong effect.1993, “Crazy dog”, in Woroni, volume 45, number 3, Acton, Canberra: Australian National University, page 28, column 4. From the entry bedwettingly
• You take off, make the steep drop, hear the white water rumbling behind you and feel the spray on your back.1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer. From the entry drop
• Panic-stricken birds all asqueal as they circled high, and still higher a helicopter rumbling about searching for the source.1962, USSR, numbers 70-75, page 36. From the entry asqueal
• Of course, people are only temporarily absent—decentred from the narrative focus by war, rumbling just over the horizon—and by no means irredeemably banished.2012, Greg Garrard, “Worlds Without Us: Some Types of Disanthropy”, in Ranjan Ghosh, editor, SubStance: A Review of Theory and Literary…. From the entry disanthropic
• The engines were rumbling, missing every now and then, and Rachel leaned back in her seat, prepared to meet her doom somewhere over the Pacific.2009, Anne Kristin Stuart, Tangled lies. From the entry doom
• While the root beer-y sweetness of the Lillet Rouge and caramel blunt the rugged, smoky edges of the Scotch, the peatiness still comes rumbling through.2008 January 13, Jonathan Miles, “Scotch Purists Beware”, in New York Times. From the entry peatiness
• Loud rumblings in the bunkhouse that night awakened the punchers often, with many rude comments made about the gastronomical escapings of certain people.2006, William W. Johnstone, Gunsight Crossing. From the entry escaping
• And, as the stupendous tides mounted, so increased the sun-quakes and volcanoes; the Gargantuanly rumbling warnings of that which was to come from below.1938 May, Edward E[lmer] Smith, “Catastrophe!”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume XXI, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Street & Smith…. From the entry gargantuanly
• I leaned far off the safety of my board, so low that if my beard had been any longer its tip would have brushed the rumbling pebbles.2013, D F Lewis, Horror Without Victims - Page 196. From the entry beardly
• Jenny and Lenny, the mischievious twins, With muddied knees and gap-toothed grins, And rumbling tummies - they lick their lips, It's time for fish fingers, beans and chips.2008, Karl Woodbury, England Is Truly a Magical Place. From the entry mischievious
• Then he ran out upon the platform just as the engine whistled twice in the final warning that precedes the first rumbling jerk of coupling pins.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 98. From the entry coupling pin
• From the darkness came the howls of routs of wolves and bands of coyotes, the rumbling growls of a sleuth of bears or the bugles of a gang of elk.2007, Elinor DeWire, The Lightkeepers’ Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses, page 200. From the entry sleuth
• Stout Chapman, thou that with thy rumbling lines Canst shake the spheres, and thou, whose painted Muse To curd and cowslips for a fee inclines: What, silent and bestaggered both?1913, George Bartram, England's Garland - Page 34. From the entry bestagger

Meaning of rumbling

1. adjective Deep- and slow-sounding.
2. noun A muted sound of complaint or discontent (often used in the plural).
3. noun A deep low noise.

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How do you use rumbling in a sentence?

Rumbling is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “His rumbling voice suited the solemn occasion.”

What is a short sentence with rumbling?

“His rumbling voice suited the solemn occasion.”

What does rumbling mean?

Rumbling means deep- and slow-sounding.