Read full poem →Blessedest Thursday's the fat of the week.
Rumble and tumble, sleek and rough,
Stinking and savoury, smug and gruff,
Dictionary Entry
A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.
In a Sentence
“The rumble from passing trucks made it hard to sleep at night.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. rumbleseat rumblerumble lowrumble distantrumble deeprumble dullrumble diastolicrumble faint
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Poetry examples for “rumble”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Rumble John! rumble John, mount the steps with a groan,
Cry the book is with heresy cramm’d;
Read full poem →That fear may pass away;
I scorn the growl and rumble of the fight
That summons me from cool
Read full poem →While the dim charging breakers of the storm
Bellow and drone and rumble overhead,
Out of the gloom they gather about my bed.
Read full poem →There was a rumble at the door,
A draught disturbed the drapery,
Read full poem →In columns rise and fall to the undulations of the ground,
With artillery interspers'd--the wheels rumble, the horses sweat,
As the army corps advances.
Read full poem →Beat! beat! drums!--blow! bugles! blow!
Over the traffic of cities--over the rumble of wheels in the streets;
Are beds prepared for sleepers at night in the houses? no sleepers
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The artillery, the silent cannons bright as gold, drawn along, rumble
lightly over the stones,