Sentence examples for faint rumble from inspiring English sources

Under the table, in a faint rumble, his foot slapped the carpet.

There was a faint rumble in the distance: I couldn't quite tell whether it was an American bass drum, a piece of machinery from somewhere, or the ocean.

But, just every so often, like the first faint rumble of a giant tanker changing course, there is the merest hint of a shift in tone, the tremor of a new heading.

The roads below were crowded with weekend traffic, but the summit was silent except for the wind whooshing through the treetops and the faint rumble of the occasional wine tanker truck passing far below.

Who hasn't imagined himself pushing upward alongside our comrades into those smoke-darkened hallways as choking civilians rush out of harm's way, while all around us a faint rumble rises?

When a bigger one thumps a quarter-mile out, she can feel a faint rumble in her floorboards.

Madoff traders exchange jokes with traders at big Wall Street outfits, and lately, behind the laughter, they all are hearing faint rumbles from the approaching storm.

Furthermore, the faint rumbles of a party can already be heard as Finland prepares to celebrate 200 years of independence in 2017.

What emerged most clearly Tuesday from sensitive global networks that measure faint rumbles in the earth was that the underground blast was most likely larger than North Korea's past explosions.

There have been reports of corporate misdeeds in America, including computer hacking at its News America Marketing division, but other than some faint rumbles in Washington about further investigations, it's been mostly smoke, no fire.

The dispute centers on an inherently tricky area of test-ban verification in which nuclear blasts have yields too small to produce the kind of powerful shock waves that distant nations can track easily as faint rumbles in bedrock.