How to Use booming in a Sentence

booming

adjective
  • Suddenly the children heard Grandpa's booming voice demanding that they get down from the roof.
  • We're not benefiting from the country's booming economy.
  • Now holding the torch is the booming Cincy Light Lager.
    The Enquirer, 10 Mar. 2024
  • If the music is all booming and heavy, then those booms [in the movie] aren’t going to have the same impact.
    David Betancourt, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
  • His booming voice put to rest rumors that age had brought a tremble to it.
    Mujib Mashal Jim Huylebroek, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • In recent years, the area has been transformed by workers from the booming biotech scene in Kendall.
    Susan Moeller, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
  • But what types of new businesses are coming to the booming city?
    Marcus D. Smith, Sacramento Bee, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Wall Street was booming, and across the city men were sucking on cigars and slicking their hair back in naked homage to Gordon Gekko.
    Jessica Pressler, Town & Country, 17 May 2023
  • The rookie spent the summer booming punts halfway to Bangor.
    Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Its trade was booming and over the decades the railroad bought up the largely unsettled tracts in Locust Point.
    Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2023
  • The gallery is in the Handley neighborhood, which was once a booming railroad hub.
    Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The island chain used to be home to a booming pineapple and sugar cane industry.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The gig economy is booming and the concept of starting a side hustle lures many.
    Melissa Houston, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
  • The barrier to entry into this booming market is high, and Jay Jiang Yu was aware of it.
    Nick Kasmik, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
  • Amid booming vinyl sales, Metallica has purchased one of the largest record pressing plants in the United States.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Matching a deep, booming tone with a dry, subtle sense of humor, the narrator is one of the things that makes Hard Knocks, well, Hard Knocks.
    Evan Romano, Men's Health, 9 Aug. 2023
  • As long as there’s a booming business around student debt, there will be entrepreneurs looking to help out—or cash in.
    Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 6 Mar. 2023
  • In that moment, the agent and William shared a glance as a plane ascended from Midway Airport, the sound fading away with the passing of a booming car beat.
    David Means, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
  • For the first hour, dancers did cartwheels down 53rd Street, high school bands marched to the booming energy of the drum line, and children rode past on their bikes adorned in red, white and blue streamers.
    Vivian La, Chicago Tribune, 4 July 2023
  • Back in the 16th century, Venetian merchants arriving here were bowled over by the booming trade in play.
    Mary Winston Nicklin, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Texas apartment builders are putting the brakes on construction after years of booming building starts.
    Steve Brown, Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2023
  • In the years since the pandemic, many Americans have enjoyed a wealth boost, thanks to a booming stock market and a rise in housing values.
    Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • In starting Credit Lift, Clark had joined the booming business of credit repair.
    Mya Frazier, New York Times, 7 June 2023
  • Texas has a booming population that Democrats hope is making the electorate more diverse and less red.
    Gromer Jeffers Jr., Dallas News, 5 May 2023
  • The stands were filling up more with every changeover, getting louder each time Shelton’s booming serve put up big numbers on the radar gun.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Essex Street gave Patterson a foothold in the booming eighties art market.
    Miss Rosen, The New Yorker, 8 July 2023
  • His beaming smile and booming laughter made a real impression on me and his strength and love for his family was easy to see.
    Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • To Omar, the vinyl market, which is still very much booming in Detroit, is a good way for an independent artist to make a decent living.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2023
  • The company raised its full-year sales and earnings target amid booming demand.
    Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The Langston players, who won 16 straight games and had not lost since Feb. 1, appeared in a state of shock afterward, as did its large delegation of fans and booming band.
    Randy Covitz, Kansas City Star, 27 Mar. 2024

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