1
: making a loud deep sound
his booming voice
2
: growing or expanding very quickly
a booming business
3
: forcefully or powerfully executed
hit a booming serve
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Examples of booming in a Sentence
We're not benefiting from the country's booming economy.
Suddenly the children heard Grandpa's booming voice demanding that they get down from the roof.
a tennis player with a booming serve
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The current Los Vaqueros, a cavernous brick cold-storage meat locker built in 1915 at 2629 N. Main St. and officially known as the D. Hart and Sons Livestock Co. building, is selling amid a flurry of real estate deals in the booming Stockyards.
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Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 May 2024
Montour got the last laugh, scoring on the ensuing power play with a booming slap shot from the point after the Panthers passed the puck throughout the offensive zone.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 12 May 2024
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Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 May 2024
Montour got the last laugh, scoring on the ensuing power play with a booming slap shot from the point after the Panthers passed the puck throughout the offensive zone.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 12 May 2024
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“Booming.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/booming. Accessed 18 May. 2024.
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booming
adjective
boom·ing
ˈbü-miŋ 
1
: making a deep sound
his booming voice
2
: forcefully or powerfully done
hit a booming serve
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