rumbles's Usage Examples:

The rain was still coming down hard and there were occasional rumbles of thunder.

My only grumbles are him sticking to Tory spending rules for the first 2 years.

for 14 hours), tin becomes so brittle that it falls into a grey powder, termed the grey modification, under a pestle; it indeed sometimes crumbles into powder spontaneously.

"The earth rumbles sometimes," she said.

huffs, puffs and grumbles disapproval at times but it is all show.

A lump of clay, which if dried would become hard and intractable, crumbles into pieces when dried after adding to it 2% of lime.

Apart from these I 've no other major grumbles.

Any of the steak options can be enhanced with options like gorgonzola crumbles or jumbo lump crabmeat.

crumbles into dust, has tested people's patience to the limit.

Dramatic and highly percussive once it gets in its stride, it rolls and rumbles along with a growing sense of unease.

Our Crowd 9 - Vocal, fairly noisy, although a fair few grumbles during the last 10 minutes.

minor grumbles aside, there is a great entry for this meeting.

These are open tracts upon which the blue ground is spread out and left exposed to sun and rain until it crumbles and disintegrates, the process being hastened by harrowing with steam ploughs; this may require a period of three or six months, or even a year.

Synonyms:

grumble, noise, grumbling, rumbling,

Antonyms:

surrender, defend, make peace, nonoperational, cheer,