How to Use boom box in a Sentence

boom box

noun

• Lucky for this guy, that boom box is a blow-up version!
  — Laurren Welch, Country Living, 22 Sep. 2022
• Fans were able to buy it on LP, CD, and — find that old boom box — a cassette.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2022
• As the night wore on, a hip-hop artist who goes by the name NO$HU did free-style rapping as a boom box blared.
  — oregonlive, 31 July 2020
• In the kitchen, things are slowing down; workers mop the floor as a boom box blasts the Grateful Dead.
  — Alana Semuels/waitsfield, TIME, 24 Feb. 2025
• Carry around a boom box, tease your hair, and wear a leotard.
  — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 8 July 2022
• The Yoto player is a very cool piece of kid tech that’s part radio and part kids’ boom box.
  — Meredith Woerner, Variety, 16 July 2024
• Yes, of course, for sure, the Cubs should have a day to welcome Sammy Sosa’s smashed boom box back to Wrigley.
  — Steve Rosenbloom, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2018
• Tinkling sounds coming from a boom box at the stage near the front, which was not music.
  — Hazlitt, 26 July 2023
• And for me, growing up there was one band blasting from my boom box.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 10 Apr. 2025
• Concerned about their boom box getting wet, Foti moved it out of harm’s way.
  — Tom Maxwell, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• During her teenage years, the Backstreet Boys blared from a boom box in her bedroom.
  — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 7 July 2020
• There was some sort of Buddhist prayer being chanted out of an old boom box on the top shelf.
  — Iman Hariri-Kia, Teen Vogue, 2 Oct. 2017
• In one photo, a bunch of teens crowd into the frame, in which somebody’s giant boom box takes pride of place.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2024
• Next to an elaborate sound system was a lo-fi boom box.
  — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
• The John Cusack days of holding a boom box outside your window are over.
  — Redbook Editors, Redbook, 15 July 2015
• The Masked Singer brought out the boom boxes, big hair, and blindingly bright clothing for a trip back to the neon decade on Wednesday night.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 30 Mar. 2023
• Skiers dance to music from their boom box on the lift at Solitude on Saturday, April 17.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Apr. 2021
• There’s a huge boom box towering over the arena in La Concorde!
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2024
• Two more cameras near the boom boxes and one at the other end of the trail recorded wildlife reactions.
  — WIRED, 8 July 2023
• Ricky sings from a little boom box, as shy excitement flits across Goli’s face.
  — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2025
• There was a table in the center, which held a boom box and a computer, and behind it a token chair or two.
  — Dina Temple-Raston, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2019
• It came wrapped in denim, was broadcast on MTV and blasted from boom boxes.
  — Shaoyu Yuan, The Conversation, 23 Apr. 2025
• Tanjoca said, her words booming from a boom box, and more than one person did.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 17 May 2020
• But the main reason why the rafters are ringing in these restaurants is not the design or the boom boxes but the current cast of consumers who go to them.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
• These are our favorite portable speakers of all shapes and sizes, from clip-ons to a massive boom box.
  — Christopher Null, Wired, 30 Mar. 2021
• Staff members greeted each child on the sidewalk in front of the building while a teacher played music from a boom box.
  — David Owen, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
• This could quite possibly be one of the coolest builds for your tween—a roller skate that can be transformed into a skateboard or a boom box.
  — Jacquelyn Smith, Parents, 27 Nov. 2025
• Strong had secretly asked the sound mixer and prop department to prepare a cassette with the song on it and have the boom box in the room.
  — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 25 Oct. 2025
• Armed with their boom boxes and cassette tapes, the boys braved the stench and recorded songs.
  — Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
• Salsa music plays from a boom box on the counter, where Amadeo tends to a pair of customers.
  — Harrison Hill, AFAR Media, 19 Aug. 2025