"Mr. Spielberg has great fun with every last growl and rumble signaling the approach of danger," Janet Maslin wrote of the original movie in The New York Times in 1993.
Spotted hyenas produce "alarm rumbles" to signal danger; these are deep, rapid staccato sounds that are heard most frequently when a lion or a human on foot appears over a rise within sight of a group of hyenas.
The ominous vivacity of music from Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" rumbling between scenes signals the play's unsettling quality.
There you are basking on a sun lounger beneath an azure sky, just the sound of the lapping sea and a cold beer for company when the heart-sinking rumble of your BlackBerry signals another joyless missive from the world of problems.
I was in a hotel bar, last weekend, when, from the far end of the room, came the rumble and buzz that signal the passing of a star.
As for those clichés: it rains heavily much of the time, and rumbles of thunder signal the devil's proximity.
We were off down the road like a herd of rumbling, rebel roustabouts, signaling to each other with thumbs up.
This suggests that these elephant rumbles may function as referential signals, in which a formant frequency shift alerts nearby elephants about an external threat, in this case, the threat of bees.
As with any price shift, headlines in one part of the world are just a single rumble among the many invisible international seismic signals sending coins up or down on a given day.
Removing the man could take just a minute or two, but that is enough to dent the rhythm of a line whose signalling allows a train to rumble by seconds after the last has left the platform.
