How to Use boom in a Sentence

boom

1 of 2 verb

• She boomed commands from the stern of the ship.
• Housing construction has boomed in the past year.
• Last year we almost had to close the store, but now business is booming.
• His voice boomed out across the congregation.
• In the ’70s, tourism to Antarctica, a two-day boat ride away, boomed.
  — Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• So why are maps booming now when most of us have a GPS in our hands at all times?
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 28 Aug. 2023
• Fins and skin, the coolest came out in the wind and the rain – booming, yelling, bursting, branding them that stayed home to the end as lame.
  — Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 26 Mar. 2023
• The economy boomed, but the health of the people began to decline.
  — Dana Covit, Vogue, 24 Mar. 2023
• As the song booming on the speakers is saying right now: How bizarre, how bizarre.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
• Oh, and Bing is booming, again thanks to the search engine’s recent A.I.-ification.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 26 Apr. 2023
• Back in the Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant years, business was booming.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Aug. 2023
• As Alan said, the health care and pharma markets have been booming.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2023
• Conversely, sales at the top end of the market are booming.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 Nov. 2023
• Job cuts in media industries have boomed even more than the rest.
  — Sunny Nagpaul, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2024
• Is booming Southeast Asia immune to all this doom and gloom?
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 4 Dec. 2023
• Over the past three decades construction has boomed across the largest emirate in the United Arab Emirates.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2023
• In the past few years, interest in candombe has boomed both within Uruguay and abroad.
  — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2023
• That’s when the racist comments blared into the room via Zoom, booming over Malone’s voice.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• People go to Topgolf’s 80-plus venues to hang out with friends and hit some balls, and business is booming.
  — The Motley Fool, Dallas News, 13 Aug. 2023
• In subsequent decades, the population of the Kowloon Walled City boomed.
  — Matt Benoit, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2023
• With Fourth of July around the corner, fireworks sales are booming.
  — Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 28 June 2023
• Across the street, young children shouted and ran around their school playground, while the sound of cannons boomed from the nearby mountains.
  — Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
• Mi think that is why the African industry is advancing now and booming like that.
  — Kyle Denis, Billboard, 8 Dec. 2023
• The air is smoky, the storms are crazy, and the superyacht industry is booming as never before.
  — Rachel Riederer, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2023
• In Europe, where women’s club soccer is booming, the goal is to win the Champions League.
  — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
• Now, as the outdoor cooker category has boomed, that's the least of your challenges.
  — Paul Kita, menshealth.com, 7 Apr. 2023
• Commerce between the two countries has boomed in recent decades.
  — Stefano Pozzebon, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
• The stock market’s 23% surge so far this year, as well as years of booming home prices, have made many Americans far richer.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2023
• Shark-fishing competitions boomed in the movie's wake and few people cared that many species were pushed close to the brink of extinction.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 19 Aug. 2023
• As leisure enthusiasts and athletes flocked to the powdery slopes, a town rich in art, culture, and culinary boomed around it.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 10 Jan. 2024

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boom

2 of 2 noun

• In the 1950s, the boom in package tourism showed promise as a new cash crop.
  — Dag Goering, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2023
• Further, the apartment boom in San Diego may be on the wane.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2024
• The success of these drugs has set off a boom in research.
  — Emma Court, Fortune Well, 31 Jan. 2024
• But by the late 1940s, in the first flush of the postwar boom, Poppa started to hit his stride.
  — Bob Brody, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2023
• Melin had suspected Ukraine’s EV boom would end with the war.
  — WIRED, 17 Nov. 2023
• The end of the U.S. shale boom has become a race to drill America's longest oil and gas wells.
  — David Uberti, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2023
• Just plop it on top of your wine bottle, hit a button, and boom, your wine is ready to rock.
  — Samantha Booth, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2023
• Like most avant-garde scenes, the early East Village drag boom was short-lived.
  — Hugh Ryan, Curbed, 12 Sep. 2023
• Wirth took the helm of Chevron at the end of a decade-long shale investment boom in the U.S. and has been forced to watch every penny.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2023
• That might be much more brutal to look at than the classical boom, boom, boom stunt.
  — Alex Barasch, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2024
• The Wie West doc comes amid a continuing sports doc boom.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2024
• What now?Netflix has lowered the boom on password sharing.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 31 May 2023
• While there was so much discussion at the time of a drag boom in and out of New York, it was still considered fringe.
  — Elyssa Maxx Goodman, ELLE, 7 Sep. 2023
• The magic of starting a company just as a boom is beginning is that the bar is low.
  — David Streitfeld, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
• But while the tax break spurred a boom in tech companies in the area, results were mixed when the tax break sunset after eight years in 2019.
  — Trisha Thadani, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
• For now, this squeamishness leaves the wholesale and retail markets feeding the vape-shop boom mostly to the little guys.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 22 June 2023
• Nvidia has been one of the main beneficiaries of the AI boom, seeing its sales surge on demand for chips.
  — Carly Wanna, Fortune, 26 May 2023
• The nearby Crème coffee shop awakened our minds, teasing San Antonio on the brink of a boom.
  — Marlise Kast-Myers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
• Elsbeth is a time traveler from an antique land before the boom of Peak TV.
  — Phillip MacIak, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• Defections from Wharton haven’t hit the level of the early-2000s tech boom, but are happening.
  — Lindsay Ellis, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2023
• Some of the Boise boom will continue to be driven by Micron, which employs around 5,400 people in Boise.
  — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 17 Jan. 2024
• With the boom and now post-pandemic and a very young population, so many things are changing.
  — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
• Then passengers heard what some called a boom and some called a pop, as the faux door flew off and exposed bare insulation around it.
  — Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
• The housing boom drew residents to the financial district as well, and that has kept it from turning into a ghost town.
  — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
• The uptick reflects the many disabled workers who have entered the workforce during the job boom — as well as the increase in people working with long Covid.
  — Brian Cheung, NBC News, 11 May 2023
• For a short time, FTX was one of the biggest names during a boom in the digital currency industry.
  — Marley Jay, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2023
• Containment booms have been established in the water to try to keep any products from spreading.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2024
• Against that backdrop, the AI boom reaped fortunes for a few leading firms, leading to a literal renaming of the top-tier of tech players.
  — Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2023
• After a sheen was seen in the Delaware River near the collapse site, the Coast Guard deployed a boom to contain the material.
  — Ron Todt, Mike Catalini, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2023
• Phoenix became the center of the speculative real estate boom that filled out the first years of the new millennium.
  — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024