Sentence examples for were rumbled from inspiring English sources

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were rumbled

noun

A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.

  • The rumble from passing trucks made it hard to sleep at night.

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The tremors of America in 1968, destabilizing as they were, rumbled from below.

They were rumbled in the airport on the holiday island of San Andres.

Even if Evans was hardly in a fit state to make a difference, they cheated and were rumbled.

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.

After they were rumbled, many voters decided that Mr Castro was too immature to be mayor.Despite all this jollity, Dallas and Houston beat San Antonio at attracting travellers from Mexico, particularly business travellers.

Farnara and his accomplice, Francis Polti, were rumbled on the evidence of an engineer and a chemist, who went to the police when two suspicious foreigners tried to buy lengths of iron piping and a pint of sulphuric acid.

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Broken waves were rumbling through the pilings like small avalanches through an iron forest.

Supply lorries were rumbling for several miles through heavy snow over a road of ice.

"I thought the Stompers and Red Hook were rumbling," Riccio said.

One particular night, Carlander's knees were rumbling.

Abel, however, has been rumbled.

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