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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
rumble .
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Examples
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The word rumbled inside his mind, foreign for some reason.
Savor Me Slowly Gena Showalter 2008
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Such rustic background music, I observed at least once, when a train rumbled by mere yards from the setting, near where I was idling.
Tom Sietsema on Girasole: A good spot to stop in Virginia's hunt country for good Italian Tom Sietsema 2010
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He waited until a train rumbled by and leaped out the window.
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Such rustic background music, I observed at least once, when a train rumbled by mere yards from the setting, near where I was idling.
Tom Sietsema on Girasole: A good spot to stop in Virginia's hunt country for good Italian Tom Sietsema 2010
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“My eyes are amazing,” Gordon rumbled from the rocks.
365 tomorrows » Gordon’s Face : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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“My eyes are amazing,” Gordon rumbled from the rocks.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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Williams caught a 1-yard scoring pass from Pinegar on Fresno State's first play of the second period, and Sumlin rumbled through the secondary for a 20-yard score on a screen pass.
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As the train rumbled by, the trestle shook and swayed until I thought we should be dashed to the chasm below.
The Story of My Life Annie Sullivan 1905
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This Great Mogul of a personage, then; this woundy Aliasuerus; this man of men; this same Hivohitee, whose name rumbled among the mountains like a peal of thunder, had been seen face to face, and taken for naught, but a bearded old hermit, or at best, some equivocal conjuror.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) Herman Melville 1855
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Time passed, the sky grew murkier, but word rumbled among his entourage on the tarmac that it would soon be a go.
NYT > Home Page 2009
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