(v. i.) To make a low, heavy, continued sound; as, the thunder rumbles at a distance.
(v. i.) To murmur; to ripple.
(n.) A noisy report; rumor.
(n.) A low, heavy, continuous sound like that made by heavy wagons or the reverberation of thunder; a confused noise; as, the rumble of a railroad train.
(n.) A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.
(n.) A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
(v. t.) To cause to pass through a rumble, or shaking machine. See Rumble, n., 4.
Example Sentences:
(1) But I know the full story and it’s a bit different from what people see.” The full story is heavy on the extremes of emotion and as the man who took a stricken but much-loved club away from its community, Winkelman knows that his part is that of villain; the war of words will rumble on.
(2) In two exceptional patients with a prolonged PR interval, this apical sound was separated from a presystolic rumble that occurred during an accelerated phase of mitral inflow or at the A wave of mitral valve echograms.
(3) So little wonder that the spectacle of five safety incidents in a week – however minor – could trigger rumblings of distrust from a nervous public.
(4) As soon as the feed-in tariff was removed, that position looked very different.” What’s more, Rumble believes that solar energy was just a few years away from being cheap enough not to require government support to grow.
(5) The students said they were told in London that a journalist would accompany them and that they risked deportation or detention if they were rumbled.
(6) It was here in 1974 that the heavyweights fought the Rumble in the Jungle under the gaze of dictator Mobutu Sese Seko .
(7) The LV dimension was significantly decreased in HCM with rumble as compared with those of HCM without rumble and the normal subjects.
(8) It sounds like the rumblings of a typical North Korean purge.
(9) Sir Richard Dalton, former UK ambassador to Iran "Iran seems to have been tipped off and come clean because it knew it was about to be rumbled.
(10) "Fortunately Denmark seem to have rumbled this sneaky Dutch trick just in time to bench him... " 1 min: Denmark set the game in motion ... 2 min: Already the game has settled into the pattern we all foresaw, with Holland staking out the full width of the pitch and stroking the ball around deliberately.
(11) Rumblings of discontent had been circulating for months with the two clashing over player recruitment following a summer of inexplicable inactivity at Bloomfield Road , and the point of no return appeared to be reached when then-Burton boss Gary Rowett was openly offered the job in September.
(12) 1 Muhammad Ali's 'rope-a-dope' Ali's "rope-a-dope" plan for 1974's Rumble in the Jungle – his fight against unbeaten George Foreman for the world heavyweight title – was one of the riskiest strategies ever seen in boxing.
(13) On cardiac examination, a pansystolic bruit and a diastolic rumble were audible at the tricuspid focus.
(14) Less noticed, because less obviously political, are current intellectual rumblings, of which French economist Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century , a withering indictment of growing inequality, is the latest manifestation.
(15) All that changed on China’s “Black Monday” last week, when the stock market sell-off that had been rumbling along for weeks turned into a rout.
(16) There are rumblings that Goldman and UBS should go without some of their fees if it is found they got the valuation wrong.
(17) Turkish police appeared uneasy at the size of the crowd gathered near a fragile border fence and fired teargas grenades to disperse them, adding the crack of smaller explosions to the rumbling of the Isis advance.
(18) Factors necessary for the production of a diastolic rumble appear to include central flow, a flexible stent, and the presence of biologic material.
(19) Discontent has been rumbling at New York fashion week since 2010, when the official catwalks were relocated from the more intimate Bryant Park space to the Lincoln Centre.
(20) Perhaps because few of us know what a gene actually does, the debate about whether we are a product of our DNA or our environment rumbles on.
Shudder
Definition:
(v. i.) To tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiver with cold; to quake.
(n.) The act of shuddering, as with fear.
Example Sentences:
(1) For a while yesterday, Hazel Blears's selfishly-timed resignation with her rude "rock the boat" brooch send shudders of revulsion through some in the party.
(2) she shudders – she has declined all reality TV invitations, and the closest she has ever come to a wardrobe malfunction was a minor ding-dong over some exposed thigh once while presenting Crimewatch, about which she was mortified.
(3) We need only look at Holland, Belgium or Denmark, and shudder.
(4) And while some of the 12-member panel still shudder at the memory , four of them – Paul Ryan, Patty Murray, James Clyburn and Rob Portman – got the band back together, with 25 other lawmakers from both parties and both houses.
(5) All good things must come to an end and, sure enough, Chelsea’s 23-game unbeaten run was brought to a shuddering halt by Alan Pardew’s pace-suffused counterattacking specialists.
(6) Blood gutters brightly against his green gown, yet the man doesn't shudder or stagger or sink but trudges towards them on those tree-trunk legs and rummages around, reaches at their feet and cops hold of his head and hoists it high, and strides to his steed, snatches the bridle, steps into the stirrup and swings into the saddle still gripping his head by a handful of hair.
(7) I shudder to think what will happen when that glue is no longer there, but we rally round and put our differences aside.
(8) Instead he buried them in paper, interring them in a tortuous numbering system he devised himself, or in the case of some detailed anatomical details of women's genitals, folding over the page to conceal them, undoubtedly with a shudder of revulsion.
(9) "It's bringing back the worst memories of the Sarkozy era," warned a Socialist teacher in La Rochelle, shuddering at Sarkozy's public breakup with Cecilia .
(10) I could feel her breath shuddering through her body.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump supporter sucker-punches black protester at rally We cannot know, and I shudder to think, how deeply these influences have conditioned public consciousness.
(12) "It wouldn't have mattered if banks hadn't been gross risk-takers, this way of doing business would still have come to a shuddering halt.
(13) The goalkeeper shudders at the memory of his appearance on RTL's Who Wants to be a Millionaire ?
(14) Four patients who were injected with 10 mg or more experienced fever, shudder and vague abdominal and articular pain.
(15) One side of the sports hall backs on to classrooms, which shudder when balls hit its walls; the other adjoins music rooms.
(16) You might shudder at such crassness, but if you're paying a premium for organic vegetables, you may be subconsciously signalling another desirable trait: conscientiousness.
(17) On the journey the man begins to convulse, his body shuddering and shaking uncontrollably.
(18) I don’t feel too jolly in most shops, so shudder to think how the poor staff feel.
(19) No significant difference existed among these three groups of patients with respect to the over-all incidence of carotid shudders or with respect to the incidence of coarse or fine shudders.
(20) Beteta's words will not trouble British tourists practising their golf swing or soaking up the sun on Andalucía's Mediterranean beaches, but they must have produced shudders in Brussels – and on the international bond markets that now view Spain as the biggest threat to the euro.