Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a rumbling manner; with a rumbling sound.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a rumbling manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb With a
rumbling sound.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The smells coming from their cooking-pot were stomach-rumblingly delicious, and I was taken with what a romantic idea it was to eat fish just caught from the ocean, sitting the sand dunes with one's family.
The Aussie Beach Niki 2004
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The smells coming from their cooking-pot were stomach-rumblingly delicious, and I was taken with what a romantic idea it was to eat fish just caught from the ocean, sitting the sand dunes with one's family.
Archive 2004-12-01 Niki 2004
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He drank indeed at one draught to pluck up a heart of any grace for it thundered long rumblingly over all the heavens so that Master
Ulysses 2003
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At the moment I hated the beasts, for too much food made their breath stink; and they rumblingly belched up a new mouthful from their stomachs each time they had chewed and swallowed the last, till a green slaver flooded out between their loose lips over the side teeth, and dripped down their sagging chins.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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His voice, pleasantly low and rumblingly pitched, began the first strain of the song he had not sung in years, since he had left the dwarves.
Flint, the King Kirchoff, Mary 2003
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A powerful current of warm breath issued at regular intervals from the profound cavity of his mouth while in rhythmic resonance the loud strong hale reverberations of his formidable heart thundered rumblingly causing the ground, the summit of the lofty tower and the still loftier walls of the cave to vibrate and tremble.
Ulysses 2003
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His voice, pleasantly low and rumblingly pitched, began the first strain of the song he had not sung in years, since he had left the dwarves.
Flint the King Kirchoff, Mary 1990
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"My dear fellow," -- Rexhill laughed rumblingly, -- "if you'll only stop for an instant to think, you'll see how absurd this is."
Hidden Gold Wilder Anthony
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A powerful current of warm breath issued at regular intervals from the profound cavity of his mouth while in rhythmic resonance the loud strong hale reverberations of his formidable heart thundered rumblingly causing the ground, the summit of the lofty tower and the still loftier walls of the cave to vibrate and tremble.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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He shook his head thoughtfully, and ignoring the statement of a watchman at the next wharf that it was a fine evening, shifted his quid and laughed rumblingly.
Light Freights 1903
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