But there was no sound of wheels; only rumblings of thunder growing ever louder, the rustle of leaves in the rising wind, and the call of the birds to one another as they hastened to shelter from the coming storm.
The sun was shining as they left the village and turned into the country road that led past home, but there were low mutterings and rumblings and Phil stopped to listen.
The rumblings of the electron had increased with each passing week.
Even now their rumblings and bellowings come through the jungles.
The rumblings you have heard were not made entirely by our enemies.
The rain became a downpour, through which flashes of lightning andrumblings of thunder came with increasing violence.
Only the mysterious rumblings and mutterings of the pent up forces beneath the island disturbed the breathless calm and silence that lay on nature--the calm before the terrible storm--the mightiest, the most awful on record!
At more or less regular intervals, rumblings and sharp detonations in the pipe are followed by an agitation of water in the basin, and then the violent expulsion of a column of water and steam to a considerable height in the air.
Deep rumblings issued from it, as from a heavy ebullition, punctured with smothered detonations.
A deep-red flame rose with a rushing noise from the seat of the eruption as renewed rumblings and roarings came from the quivering ground.
About this period there were still some rumblings of discontent amongst the Sioux Indians south of the boundary line in the region of Manitoba.
He had that day put the crown on a career of the highest distinction; the King had conferred the Collar of the Annunziata upon him; and in view of the continued rumblings of unrest it was even probable that he would be made Dictator.
Snow was still falling, and there were some rumblings of thunder.
The detonations and rumblings that so alarmed the Bermudan fishers were not caused by the internal workings of nature.
During the ensuing two months internal rumblings and explosions continued to be heard, which were accompanied by bursts of flame from the top--especially at night.
But dark clouds begin to build up moist tire-laden pyramids, and low rumblings of distant thunder are beginning to be heard.
And now began the troubles that were to shake the infant settlement, rumblings of more desperate encounters, for a hostile British fleet arrived, and Quebec was compelled to capitulate.
Only fainter and fainter rumblings and mutterings and paler and paler darts followed.
A yellow flame had torn its jagged way across the heavens, and an earth-rending crash had thundered itself into rumblings which actually died away before breaking forth again.
Now and then he could hear distant rumblings of carts and vans passing in the street.
The last distant rumblings of thunder had died away and the clouds were breaking.
There were faint rumblings also in Congress, but like so many of its feelings they were confined largely to the cloak rooms.
Never have such terrible rumblings fallen on my head.
There were rumblings under the hills that night, and the whippoorwills piped threateningly.
They were loud--loud as the rumblings and the thunder above which they echoed--yet did they come from no visible being.
Twice a year they would light fires on the top of Sentinel Hill, at which times the mountain rumblings would recur with greater and greater violence; while at all seasons there were strange and portentous doings at the lonely farmhouse.
We heard the rumblings of the storm, indeed, but there had been other storms before, and they had blown over, and why should not this one go the same as they?
Heard the rumblings of wagons, and observed great commotion on the part of the enemy as though there had been the relief of a regiment.
The piercing shrieks from the meadows were at intervals drowned by the round rumblings of the medium calibers followed by the hideous roars from the firing mouths of large caliber.
Storms raged; lightning flashed; ominous roarings and rumblings sounded from the depths of the earth.
Fearful rumblingsand roarings sounded all about them.
The rumblings of the storm began to be heard in France on May 1, the Feast of the Apostles Philip and James, Louis-Philippe's name-day.
Even that war ended seventeen years ago and since then only the distant rumblings of battles in foreign lands have been borne across the ocean to our ears.
With the opening months of 1676 there were ominous rumblings of revolt.
That Berkeley allowed such an Assembly to re-enact in substantially the same form several of Bacon's laws, shows that he was not entirely deaf to the rumblings of a new rebellion.
In the middle of the night, rumblings of thunder were heard, and lightnings illuminated the glen.
A few drops of rain fell; distant rumblings of thunder and flashes of lightning now cooled the air.
The only music that had ever entered her ears was that of the sacred hymns, the rumblings of the organs, the confused murmurings of prayers, with which at times vibrated all this fresh little house, so close to the side of the great church.
A shower of gold would stream from the roof of the Cathedral, a triumphal march would break forth in the distant rumblings of the organ, and all would come true.
Distant rumblings echo menacingly in the ebullitions of its people.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rumblings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
