rumbling

How To Use rumbling In A Sentence

• If this was the UK, I would expect to be ushered to a table (probably grumbling inwardly about the empty tables I passed on the way), then, once seated, make a curt nod and "hullo" to my table mates before either engaging in quiet conversation with my companion or looking pensively out of the window, trying hard to look like I'm thinking of Very Important Things. Amtrak adventures
• There seemed to my perverted sense a certain poetic justice about the fact that money, gained honestly but prosaically, in groceries or gas, should go to regild an ancient blazon or prop up the crumbling walls of some stately palace abroad. Worldly Ways and Byways
• European visitors to the site on the Wells Estate are often dismayed to find a landmark where undrinkable water leaks from crumbling walls.
• The irony was wasted on the Americans as they swarmed down the crumbling alleys.
• Walls were crumbling and ivy was growing inside. Times, Sunday Times
• Though the bottom ten feet or so had been polished smooth, the flanks higher up were like crumbling battlements. Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic
• The flashes were like an irregular stroboscope and the rumbling was like an enormous building was being demolished nearby. This weekend...
• Donna becomes quiet for a moment, hearing rumbling coming from another room.
• All the stabilities of the human mind and human achievement were crumbling. Goliah
• Its only scourge - heavy lorries - rumbling through its streets, polluting the environment and damaging historic buildings.