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
• Rather than settling down, the economy appears to be booming as prices continue to climb more quickly than usual.
  — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
• The despondent chocolatier then confesses to the kids that business hasn't exactly been booming in recent years.
  — EW.com, 10 Apr. 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
• The company that transformed online retail wants in on the generative AI boom — and is optimistic much of it will be built on its cloud computing service.
  — Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2024
• And in the midst of the Treasure Valley’s population and construction boom, these materials are playing an outsize role in the waste that’s filling up the landfill much faster than expected.
  — Sarah Cutler, Idaho Statesman, 8 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024