booming

adjective

boom·ing | \ ˈbü-miŋ

Definition of booming

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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In fashion, lingering financial fear, anti-consumerist impulses, and environmental concerns have contributed to the rise of a booming resale market. — Eliza Brooke, Vox, "How the Great Recession influenced a decade of design," 27 Dec. 2018 The sharp emissions rise was fueled primarily by a booming economy, researchers found. — Chris Mooney, The Seattle Times, "U.S. greenhouse gas emissions spiked in 2018 – and it couldn’t happen at a worse time," 9 Jan. 2019 Nadym, a former gulag camp, is now a booming town of gas workers. — Anatoly Kurmanaev, WSJ, "U.S. Sanctions Bring Kremlin, Russian Oligarchs Closer Together," 29 Nov. 2018 Highway 93 connects Missoula, a booming college town, with Polson, on the south shore of Flathead Lake. — Abe Streep, New York Times, "What the Arlee Warriors Were Playing For," 4 Apr. 2018 Meanwhile, in recent years, new hotels have been popping up around the booming resort town, including the downtown Firebrand. — Myers Reece, Condé Nast Traveler, "Montana Ski Resorts Don't Get As Much Love As They Should," 23 Jan. 2018 Bisbee This southeast Arizona community, once a booming copper-mining town, has reinvented itself as a quirky arts community. — azcentral, "From climate to fry bread, 125 reasons to love Arizona," 15 May 2015 Harley-Davidson has long been the standard bearer of loud, booming engines, but at Las Vegas' Consumer Electronics Showcase on Monday, the motorcycle company showed off its first-ever pure electric bike. — Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, "Harley-Davidson's LiveWire Electric Bike Is Here—And Very Expensive," 7 Jan. 2019 His first foray into spirits, accordingly, was with rye whiskey, not exactly a booming category in the early ’90s. — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, "In wake of Sapporo beer deal, Anchor Distilling rechristened as Hotaling & Co.," 31 Jan. 2018

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