With the distant roar of thunder, the women began to look as if they were moving through heavy summer weather.
We ran into the brush and heard the distant roar of a motorcycle.
The distant roar in his head wasn't the sound of building rage.
Through the open windows came the distant roar of London's traffic.
From behind he heard the distant roar of a plane motor.
They might have been a radio left on, but slightly off station and two rooms away, or the distant roar of a crowd.
In the still evening air the noise of the falls could be heard like a distant roar.
It seemed I heard a faint distant roar as from a crowd.
We would hear a distant roar every time he did something.
Now the distant, awesome roar of the bus came through the forest.