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Recent Examples of rumbled
Heavy equipment rumbled away on what is now red clay, no longer road asphalt, at the site Tuesday.
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Joe Marusak
may 14, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2026
Trainor’s family and friends had followed the 30-year-old officer’s casket in a motorcade that rumbled through Federal Street, up to the church’s front doors.
—Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 13 May 2026
The anti-vaccine rhetoric, and the efforts to revise laws and regulations, rumbled along at the state health department, and in the legislature.
—Kerry Sheridan, NPR, 28 Apr. 2026
Minutes later, some attendees reported hearing what sounded like gunshots and the room rumbled as everyone rushed to hide under tables.
—Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 26 Apr. 2026
The storms have rumbled across a number of states for the better part of this week and could continue into the early weekend.
—ABC News, 16 Apr. 2026
Four years ago Natalia Bozhko sat in a basement, listening to air raid sirens, as tanks rumbled through the streets of Kyiv.
—Mariia Yastreba, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2026
Thunderstorms rumbled through the Chicago area Thursday afternoon amid unseasonably warm and humid weather, with temperatures running 20 degrees above average.
—Kylee Miller, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026
Big Boy rumbled through Northern California in 2014, but with fewer stops than are planned this year.
—Brooke Park, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Mar. 2026
Joe Marusak
may 14, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2026
Trainor’s family and friends had followed the 30-year-old officer’s casket in a motorcade that rumbled through Federal Street, up to the church’s front doors.
—Colleen Cronin, Boston Herald, 13 May 2026
The anti-vaccine rhetoric, and the efforts to revise laws and regulations, rumbled along at the state health department, and in the legislature.
—Kerry Sheridan, NPR, 28 Apr. 2026
Minutes later, some attendees reported hearing what sounded like gunshots and the room rumbled as everyone rushed to hide under tables.
—Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 26 Apr. 2026
The storms have rumbled across a number of states for the better part of this week and could continue into the early weekend.
—ABC News, 16 Apr. 2026
Four years ago Natalia Bozhko sat in a basement, listening to air raid sirens, as tanks rumbled through the streets of Kyiv.
—Mariia Yastreba, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2026
Thunderstorms rumbled through the Chicago area Thursday afternoon amid unseasonably warm and humid weather, with temperatures running 20 degrees above average.
—Kylee Miller, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026
Big Boy rumbled through Northern California in 2014, but with fewer stops than are planned this year.
—Brooke Park, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rumbled
growled
Verb
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Mira growled into her watch, excitedly.—
Anna Wiener,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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The wereboar growled next to Black Pudding, a hulking vicious monster, both focused on ripping Puck and Cordelia to shreds.—
Jaclyn Cosgrove,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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“Rumbled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rumbled. Accessed 19 May. 2026.
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