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.
Please excuse my stomach rumbling - I haven't eaten all day.
As physical stress increases the body's needs for many vitamins and minerals, intercurrent infections also induce a relative nutrient deficiency, especially in chronic (long-term) grumbling types of infection e.g. acute cystitis, vaginal bacterial imbalance. Miscarriage
Once more the evening sky is dark and the streets are empty, the silence broken only by the familiar rumbling bass from high performance stereos passing in the night.
The wall was old and crumbling with plants growing in the interstices between/in/of the bricks.
In a country where even the hospitals are usually freshly painted, visitors would report on how tatty Nasa facilities always looked, complete with ‘rusting pipes and crumbling concrete’.
Residents have complained about being awoken in the early hours by empty wagons rumbling through the town on their way to the quarries.
colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple
Parts of the Via Appia Antica are closed to traffic on Sundays, and the stretch running south from the Tomb of Cecilia Metella, lined with crumbling graves and tall umbrella pines, and parallel to an aqueduct, is one of the finer archaeological walks in the world. The Road from Ravenna
Insiders say that rumblings behind the scenes at ABC's ‘Nightline’ are harbingers of possible dramatic news about the show's future.
You must be losing it by now, crumbling under my assault, failing like the loser you are!
Only a slight, chill wind dared to slip among the crumbling buildings.
Experts say the buildings are riddled with asbestos, crumbling stonework and ageing electrical equipment and wiring. Times, Sunday Times
The long period of hot, sultry, humid, rainless weather has finally broken this morning, with a long, rumbling storm.
Though he could be an imposing force on the defensive line, he was downright scary rumbling out of the backfield as a fullback, plowing a path for teammate Walter Payton.
Several crumbling mansions also echo the misfortunes of wastrel sons who blew their patrimony on (as one local tells me), ‘fast women and slow horses’.
Methodist minister the Rev Ruth Parry said church members were elated that the planning wrangle, which had been rumbling on for many years, was finally over.
The envelope fragment was black and crumbling into ashes that fell within the creases of the notebook.
The one quality that they all shared, in the end, was stickability - the determination to cling to office with the tenacity of barnacles clinging to a crumbling wreck.
The entire social system, based on kinship and alliances, is shown crumbling away as, in each generation, wealth-bearing brides make off with what they can salvage in money and durables.
A bitter controversy about the siting of the airport is rumbling in the designing institute.
A few years ago, the bilious 1990s backlash against single parents living on crumbling estates - like my sister - was slowly receding.
I'm so hungry that my stomach's rumbling.
The regime is crumbling fast and its proud, stubborn old President faces the imminent prospect of defeat. Times, Sunday Times
This row has already been rumbling on for five years and another six months will hardly be sufficient to soften the uncompromising attitudes of the two sides.
His stormy gaze swept over all the buildings until it landed on a run down apartment with boarded up windows and crumbling walls.
Without warning, the smell, the sound, the rumbling just stopped.
Tough executives are tacitly understood to be well kempt on the outside, whilst inwardly crumbling, decaying, turning to sludge.
The restoration will also include work to the stonework of the north and south transepts, which are also crumbling badly.
People were watching a half-filled water cooler that was emitting an ominous rumbling sound.
As if that wasn't enough Clyburn again stepped out in the media a month or so later right here on CNN, warning about his fellow representatives were grumbling to him they were worried and warned the voters in the upcoming state to think twice before they went to the polls yet Clyburn would not say what they were saying or who was stating their concerns. Public option may be dropped from final health care bill
This canteen (with a funnel on its top, like a cavalier cap slouched over the eyes) was set on edge upon the puncheon, with the hole toward myself; and through this hole, which seemed puckered up like the mouth of a very precise old maid, the creature was emitting certain rumbling and grumbling noises which he evidently intended for intelligible talk. Archive 2008-12-01
Beneath the flowering plants were slats of the veranda half eaten by ants or crumbling with tropical humidity.
The ruling two-party coalition has a mandate until 2012, but its wafer-thin parliamentary majority is crumbling. Few believe it can stumble on much longer.
Please excuse my stomach rumbling - I haven't eaten all day.
The tourists are still coming in their droves, to gawk at the city's crumbling, period elegance.
It believes that offering scenes set in abandoned barns and ivy covered, crumbling conservatories will add a sinister shimmer to the formula.
There were rumblings and grumblings at special meetings called by the church council in a vain bid to restore peace.
She fidgeted on her spot, shifting from one foot to another as an uncomfortable silence filled the air, but she was saved when her stomach started grumbling loudly.
The rumbling noise sounded off again, the distant sounds of the war being waged just outside reaching their ears at a delayed rate.
In these crumbling, crowded streets outside the Old City, which UNESCO lists as a World Heritage site, artisans and merchants make and sell anything from farm tools to copper ornaments, brassware and carpets, just as in generations past. Archive 2007-06-01
She was starving, the empty rumbling in her stomach was witness to that, and she hurt so bad she felt like vomiting.
Near the exit, the ceiling started crumbling and falling on top of the room, much to their horror.
Set within the confines of a crumbling mansion, a child bride finds an unusual way to escape from her loathsome mill owner husband.
We went along above the Esk, which is a little rattling, rumbling, clear, rocky river, prettier than any we ever saw in England .... Lady John Russell
Resulting in much rumbling from the allies, but no serious intervention. Cheeseburger Gothic » A Sweet Jane alt-hist challenge!
Willersey residents were hoping their campaign to stop heavy lorries rumbling through their village streets would move up a gear after a meeting last night.
His stomach is grumbling, but he doesn't want to leave his desk.
When the economy went south a few years ago, the rumblings regarding California's business climate grew to a roar and the business climate problems become more evident.
It's like one of Martin Parr's photographic nightmares, a neon shanty town of amusement arcades, chip shops and crumbling holiday camps that look like gulags.
The rumbling sounds of an automobile engine poured from a black panel wall beside the bed.
Beneath this undercurrent of grumbling is the philistine assumption that it is elitist or irrelevant to consider art which does not excite the mass market.
As they'd noted, this area had a somewhat disused look to it, for the floor was covered with a conglomeration of dirt, guano and silt interspersed with crumbling bits of masonry or fallen pillars.
Grumbling to himself, he washed and dressed, tying back his long hair with a leather thong.
They pull the car into the carport with pillars and a crumbling stucco facade.
The cliff edge was crumbling and it was a long drop down. The Sun
It was log cabin style, as all of ours were, but the roof was shingled with crumbling slate, a pattern that resembled dragons scales.
He leaned out over the small rail and was about to embrace the blackness when a truck came rumbling along the road.
If ones hears the rumbling approach of a runaway train, why should one's panic be lessened by the knowledge that the engineer, conductor, crew, and passengers abroad the train are well medicated, and, as a result, are all models of self-esteem and self-confidence, are imbrued with glowing good cheer, and are at peace with themselves and the world? The Rise of Pharmatopia
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
Crumbling Bath Bombs is probably from either not packing them tightly enough or not using enough witch hazel or oil. Bath Bomb Cupcakes - Instructions
To the south-west is a rank clay, that requires the labour of years to render it mellow; while the gardens to the north-east, and small enclosures behind, consist of a warm, forward, crumbling mould, called black malm, which seems highly saturated with vegetable and animal manure; and these may perhaps have been the original site of the town; while the woods and coverts might extend down to the opposite bank. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
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A loud rumbling noise like thunder was heard in the early hours of the night. Times, Sunday Times
The roof leaks, the walls are impregnated with damp and the buttresses are crumbling.
Clotho saw it, for he called to Joe to look out, and the pistol was jammed into my back ... and all the while I could hear the morning traffic rumbling in the street far below the curtained windows, and the distant knocks of porters rousing guests THE NUMBERS
Though Pangea was intact, the first rumblings of continental break up could be heard.
The first Háshim got his name from crumbling bread into the Saríd or brewis of the Meccan pilgrims during “The Ignorance.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
A slight rumbling in her stomach reminded her to eat.
For most of them, they have grown up hearing distant propagandist rumblings from the mainland all their life, and in the tradition of the boy who cried wolf, the fear is rather underwhelming.
The plain fact is that this sad old building creates the impression of ruinous crumbling in what should be a lively shopping street.
The bipartisan grumbling varied: Some Democrats griped that the Jewish New Year took up otherwise prolific fundraising days in September, and one Republican operative complained that Hurricane Irene slowed down fundraising in August. HUFFPOST HILL - Tricorne Hat-less Grassroots Movement Growing On Wall Street
Along the brink of the bog, picking their road among crumbling rocks and green spongy springs, a company of English soldiers are pushing fast, clad cap-a-pie in helmet and quilted jerkin, with arquebus on shoulder, and pikes trailing behind them; stern steadfast men, who, two years since, were working the guns at Westward Ho!
Thus thought Maria — These are the ravages over which humanity must ever mournfully ponder, with a degree of anguish not excited by crumbling marble, or cankering brass, unfaithful to the trust of monumental fame. Maria; or The Wrongs of Woman
Despite the grumblings of everyone's stomachs, several minutes were then spent in effusive praise for the number of dishes.
Garage rockers Side Effect took to the Internet last year to rustle up enough money to release their debut album without relying on the conservative record labels that dominate the music scene here among the crumbling, mildewed buildings of Myanmar's commercial and artistic hub. Sanctions Put Rock Band in Hard Place
The row about pay is still rumbling on.
We chunter through each day, grumbling, griping and groaning.
A bitter controversy about the siting of the airport is rumbling in the designing institute.
Veggies, vegans and grumbling carnivores can all sit down together at this cosmopolitan cornucopia of fusion cooking, finds Joanna Blythman
Usually bedecked in a powder-blue suit, she totters down the steps of one ancient pile with the purpose of opening another crumbling edifice a short limousine drive away.
Great flashes of light illuminated the whole area, punctuated by the rumbling of thunder clouds.
It was approaching lunchtime and Jake's stomach was rumbling, but there were still a few more members of staff to speak to before he could think about eating.
In the north, the Gauls are threatening, the Greeks are grumbling to the east, and Rome's biggest threat, the Carthaginians, are growing tetchy to the south.
When luck is something you inherit or buy, grumbling at the complaints of the less fortunate is graceless, to say the least.
Then St. Lusson (a sword in one hand and "crumbling turf in the other") cried to his French followers who applauded his sentences, to the savages who could not understand, to the rapids which would not heed, and to the forests which have long forgotten the vibrations of his voice, the words in French to which these words in English correspond: The French in the Heart of America
Others were recklessly digging great holes in the footpath between the poplars, and ramming the earth into bags, or nailing together great pieces of driftwood, fished from the river, to form a screen behind the sandbags on the parapet and hold them against the pressure of the current, while carts kept rumbling in and unloading piles of stone and rubble against the wall and screen. The Paris Flood of 1910 | Edwardian Promenade
A rumbling baritone backdrop to the tenor and soprano F1 motors. Times, Sunday Times
The Health Services superboard is crumbling and his reputation is crumbling with it. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Some of Payne's photos have shades of creepiness: the barbed wire surrounding a turreted building or the cold grandeur of a crumbling marble staircase. Where Patients Once Sought Asylum - Culture - The Atlantic
They worked without grumbling and often upon finishing other chores they would bring some stone to be hewn and set. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
It's a safari postcard moment: A family of elephants rush together, rumbling, trumpeting, and screaming, their chorused voices deafening in the wilderness.
I lean back against the kitchen counter, ignoring the rumbling in my stomach.
She spent the evening grumbling to me about her job.
The grandstands, which ring the southern and western sides of the arena, are old fashioned red brick, with crumbling black bitumen leading to the fence line.
Down underneath New York City, in a network of tunnels and caverns, rat-populated, perspiring, rumbling, lonely, I was troubled, as I have often been troubled, by these alarums of conscience.
The grumbling set in, and people spoke of “churching” elsewhere. Tattoos on the Heart
The old stonework was crumbling and eroded and badly in need of repair.
The country faces a crumbling economy and chronic shortages. Times, Sunday Times
The wood that had been drawn for the fire was green, and it ignited too slowly to satisfy the shivering impatience of women and children; I vented mine in audibly grumbling over the wretched fire, at which I in vain endeavoured to thaw frozen bread, and to dress crying children. Roughing It in the Bush
The leadership of the Muslims was crumbling, the masses disillusioned and disunited.
It was summer and there were strikes and rumblings of discontent. Times, Sunday Times
Meanwhile, Collins's case remains unsettled, and only chipping paint and crumbling steps indicate the havoc inside her house.
Soon they were all talking at once, rumbling and roaring as big - chested open-air men will, when whisky has whipped their taciturnity. Chapter 4
KURTZ: I remember in 1993, when Bill Clinton was grumbling about what he called the knee-jerk liberal press not being fair to him, a Democrat. CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2009
According to the rare reports that emerge from inside, the crumbling cities and towns are blighted by poverty and despair. The Sun
Once state-of-the-art post-war buildings were crumbling away, with leaky roofs and rotting window frames.
Lightning danced across the horizon, accompanied by low, rumbling thunder.
Even the grumbling from the grandstands seemed strangely unanimated. Times, Sunday Times
She spent the evening grumbling to me about her job.
Her body was crumbling: she was confined to a chair with an osteoporotic spine, and her neck seemed to have collapsed so that her head apparently sprouted from her upper chest at a crazy angle.
Stomach grumbling, I looked up at the clock - It was about noon - grimaced, and grabbed a banana off the counter, padding upstairs.
It was a rumbling noise that continued for about ten seconds. Titanic - Destination disaster
The auditorium fills with rumbling noise and operatic music. Times, Sunday Times
Wherever US troops are present, the violence is present and the troops are everywhere - in their rumbling tanks, thunderous choppers and provocative foot patrols.
Mr. Simonds can fall back a little too readily on his facility for making sculptural puns out of those little bricks, as in "Grown Walls" 2011, a pedestal-top piece in which a flower in the desert morphs outward, somewhat patly, into crumbling walls. Feats of Rock, Paint & Clay
A large rumbling noise distracted their attention for a moment.
Simon opened his mouth to say something but was interrupted by the distant rumbling of thunder.
My stomach was grumbling on the inside really hard.
More likely problems are minor cracks, crumbling and chuckholes, which are relatively easy to repair.
They needed to repair the crumbling walls of their draughty homes, too.
When crumbling dictators make these trips they are often one way. Times, Sunday Times
There was no sound except for the rumbling thunder and the splash of water on the city's cobbled streets.
The money was immediately deposited; Miss Williams gratified the two evidences with one half, and putting the other in her pocket drove borne with me, leaving the catchpole grumbling over his loss, yet pleased in the main, for having so cheaply got clear of a business that might have cost him ten times the sum, and his place to boot. The Adventures of Roderick Random
planetary rumblings and eructations
The old Lombard aristocracy was gradually crumbling away except in the far north and the distant south.
The dogs made a noise, a rough, grumbling sound.
This morning at about 3AM, a sweet rain fell and at about 6AM, I felt a rumbling in the bed for a second or two… an earth tremor.
She entered the familiar vestibule, with its scarred stone caryatids and crumbling pillars, and walked down the short flight of iron-railed steps to the main chamber of Father's rooms.
Now am I relapsed into all the dissatisfied repinement of a true English grumbling voluptuary. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
She hoped to create a wall faux-roughed by decades of wear -- patches of weathered concrete plus bricks both grouted and un -, painted-over and crumbling. Galleries: Old is new at Touchstone; Rebecca Key turns back time at Transformer
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
Gezephi Ntshanyase kneels in the dirt as she hacks off lumps of kaoline with a primitive hoe, all the while keeping a watchful eye on the crumbling rock face above. ANC Daily News Briefing
And despite regular grumbling from consumers about slippage in quality, more and more people are flying all the time.
After wanderings and criticisms and grumblings and little disloyalties of the tongue all Englishmen come back to an England immovable and eternal. St. George and Merrie England
He gives one of his rumbling belly laughs, then replies that he is certainly not Superman.
On the opposite side of the house, several hundred yards away, the country turnpike ran; and from this there now reached them the rumbling of many vehicles, hurrying in close procession out of the nearest town and moving toward smaller villages scattered over the country; to its hamlets and cross-roads and hundreds of homes richer or poorer -- every vehicle Christmas-laden: sign and foretoken of the Bride of the Mistletoe
The Bird Cage theater, crumbling, dusty, and decaying, is the Old West. BACK!
A loud rumbling of outrage erupted from various groups and the councilman had to order them to be quiet.
He was so deep in slumber; his snoring was a loud and rumbling vibrato of sound. Pure Paradise
The gang was grumbling and accusing Bill of being "bluffed" and all that, but they didn't make any effort to attack the man. Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies
Objects, from a wedding dress to a crumbling garden gnome, tell the story of past relationships. Times, Sunday Times
She sat crumbling pastry in her pink gloves and the wind blew ash and tiny sparks from her cigarette.
He spoke with wrath rumbling low in his voice. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
It met twice a year to discuss and vote the departmental budget, which it did, often after ritualistic grumbling and symbolic resistance. The Government and Politics of France
He didn't trust the crumbling clay-and-straw roof, much less the rickety wooden beams supporting the second floor.
There is often much grumbling, amid at least some of the privileged participants. Times, Sunday Times
New laws introduced in 1980 encouraged them to become increasingly cavalier in their approach to lending just as their deposit bases were crumbling. Times, Sunday Times
Every summer, the clan -- four families complete with grumbling nannies -- gathered at Cultoquhey, the grandparents 'huge stone-built pile in Perthshire. Mrs. Miniver
There are closed shops, crumbling apartment blocks and empty offices and schools, many pancaked from bombardment and pock-marked with bullet and shrapnel holes.
He has blown onto the scene in a torrent of invective, firing broadside after broadside at the crumbling bastions of public morality.
The Whig party was crumbling fast. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
‘These grants will ensure problems such as leaky roofs and crumbling masonry are nipped in the bud,’ he added.
He pulled on a pair of dark jeans, and trudged down the stairs, grumbling about it being so early.
But it's different, there's a strange hush in the air and the endless rumbling of 50,000 cannon shells.
Infrasound carries over long distances, and all that we can hear is sometimes a deep rumbling sound. Times, Sunday Times
To our right stood the shell of Combe House, yet another Dales house crumbling into ruin.
Bailouts to big banks and shameless corporate greed have left us with a faltering economy, a weak job market and crumbling financial system that has made workers more vuln ... Anna Burger: Change to Win: Mobilizing for a New American Dream
She wondered, behind her crumbling composure, if he had got a crick in his neck by now. AT THE STROKE OF TWELVE
There have also been grumblings about charges and tithes collected by churches - indulgences being one case.
In many places basalt in piles and crumbling strata of hornblende schiste, disposed edgeways, green within, and without blackened by sun and rain, cropped out of the ground. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
Either way, many students are sucked into the workforce at entry-level posts, grumbling that they're overqualified and underpaid.
The scene lasts several minutes, shot from all angles and distances - close on Cage's barely straining face and body, extremely long on the crumbling snowscape.
Anderson cuts back the distracting noises and crumbling static to reveal a stark paean about Odyssean fortitude.
He continued down the path, wondering what the rumbling meant and why people were so scared of it.
Jonathan was interrupted by a deep rumbling sound that came from behind the vehicle.
The quake struck close to the rumbling Mount Merapi, and soon after a large burst of hot clouds and debris avalanched two miles down its western flank, spreading fears of a major eruption.
The rumbling of wheels heard through the drooping festoonery of the trees, proclaimed that a second carriage was approaching along the Shell Road. The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley
Grumbling in annoyance, she deleted all the junk mails in her mailbox.
Overshadowing the square was a tall hill topped by a crumbling castle.
The crooning stopped, replaced by the sound of the engine grumbling steadily and the road moving beneath us smoothly.
Just as we waited until the last moment before replacing crumbling Victorian sewers, we have now reached a similar point with our energy infrastructure. Times, Sunday Times
The grumblings, however, may be less an indication of an impending military revolt than the last feeble lashing out of those weaned on the old ways.
There is a lack of manners, a lack of courtesy nowadays, and you don't have to be Einstein to work out that the very fabric of society seems to be crumbling.
The opening moments were an onslaught of wailing, rumbling sound that pinned us to our seats. Times, Sunday Times
The Whig party was crumbling fast. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
More rumbling from the weapon of choice, and Jones looked satisfied, “Yeah, that should buy us some time.” 365 tomorrows » 2005 » August : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
She was slighted by her father and the servants, and bullied by her brother; and was only just enabled, by humble, unpresuming disposition, to carry on her tedious life from year to year without grumbling. The Kellys and the O'Kellys
You are more likely to see a new school building than a crumbling one. Times, Sunday Times
When crumbling dictators make these trips they are often one way. Times, Sunday Times
I'm so hungry that my stomach's rumbling.
Stand very still and you might just be able to detect the vibrations rumbling through your body.
The deep rumbling beneath their feet abruptly stopped, and the electrical discharges faded away.
Gary called from the car, his deep voice rumbling across the parking lot.
That rumbling sound that we call a purr is clearly meant to be communication, since cats only purr in the company of living things, such as other cats, people, and other pets. How to Speak Dog
It teeters on the cusp of the Mediterranean, offering endless vistas of blue-green sea, bucketfuls of fresh air, and crumbling, salty buildings of the old town that still manage to retain their elegance.
We could hear thunder rumbling in the distance.
They worked without grumbling and often upon finishing other chores they would bring some stone to be hewn and set. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
The Jacobean manor house is crumbling rapidly having lost its roof and now even its walls are in danger of falling.
I also hear there have been rumblings of discontent among some of the fans over the timing of our trip.
When we're not sensually crumbling a Flake, enjoying some feminine "me-time", we're heartbroken in pyjamas, spooning chocolate ice cream into our communal mouths. The truth about men, women and food

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