How To Use Boom In A Sentence

Even while he was missing, those uncertain hours of anxious speculation and dismal journalism, she had assumed Maxwell would be found boomingly alive, having spent the whole time enjoying the amorous advances of a short-sighted minke whale. Country of the Blind
Kaboom, then home for chow, a few beers and a couple of frames of bowling. CORMORANT
Hopefully, some of the more level-headed members of the council can prevail and make the Boom Town fiasco a bust.
NHS penpusher boom: Wages bill is up £78m as 'costly' drugs are vetoed Home | Mail Online
The sight of the fireball was followed by a sonic boom as the meteorite exploded into thousands of pieces over Barwell near Leicester. Times, Sunday Times

Suddenly a deep voice boomed out from some of the trees nearby.
Cavil, Doral and another Simon how long have you got buddy? find the dead doctor Simon and once again Cavil shows himself to be a pathetic military planner, he admits he "miscalculated" Boomer's actions. VARIANTS: DAYBREAK, PT II - REVIEW
It's worth keeping in mind that household mortgage credit expanded at an 11.4% rate during the second quarter, a torrid pace likely being surpassed with the current refi boom.
I promised a lowlight from a study predicting the future of boomers twenty years hence. The Boomer Blog: April 2008 Archives
At the root of the problem is nothing so mundane as access to the hills and glens but the booming industry in Scottish barony titles that sell on average for £55,000 each.
Internet loan companies are booming at the expense of hard-pressed consumers. The Sun
The most striking thing about the boom in issues of convertible and warrant bonds in 1987-89 was how many firms were involved.
He pulls out the original drum track, throws in a turgid approximation of the live drums with a drum machine and a stiff boom-kick, adds some bloops, bleeps, and squiggles (because, hey, it's a remix), and cashes his paycheck.
Record profits in the retail market indicate a boom in the economy.
The economy finally turned down after a long boom
However, he will give us his assurance tonight that he will never grow it, even if it is a boomer crop for New Zealand and provides many, many benefits.
Then trumpeters played a fanfare, fireworks boomed and crackled across the sky and children from schools on either side of the river waved flags and exchanged huge greetings cards to commemorate new links between their communities.
I had shown the old-fashioned deadeyes instead of rigging screws and had drawn the wrong kind of gooseneck attaching the boom to the mast. Cumberland, Part 3: Acting It Out
They sat in a thoughtful moment before a boom of thunder sounded and Jane jumped.
The decade following saw the first railway train arrive from the East, the first C.P.R. steamship anchored in port, the Klondike "boom," and the great mining industries of British Columbia well under way. Canadian Cities of Romance
Essentially, it is just a set of headphones and a boom microphone, plus the software that enables you to talk to others online.
Four beats after curtain rises, bump downlights to full wattage; they're boom lights rigged to the top of the stage.
One must guard against the misinterpretation of this term impoverishment as compared with the state of affairs which would have developed in the absence of credit expansion and the boom. Is Something Better Than Nothing?
By the time the sloop's deck was perpendicular, we had unbent the boom-lift from below, made it fast to the wharf, and, with the other end fast nearly to the mast-head, heaved it taut with block and tackle. SMALL-BOAT SAILING
However, reflecting trends in Europe, sales of semi-skimmed milk boomed in Japan during the review period to represent 12 percent of sales by 1998.
But this inhospitable terrain is also key to the boomtown future.
Despite a modest revival in city living, Americans are spreading out more than ever into "exurbs" and "boomburbs" miles from anywhere, in big houses in big subdivisions.
Many of the sites launched at the peak of the Internet boom have now disappeared.
They had brought a modest decline in the face of extreme boom conditions, but no collapse.
The failure of baby boomers to effectively communicate with younger generations of soldiers is driving many captains out of the Army.
It was kind of hard to get too worked up about it when the TV news was busy erroneously reporting that the space shuttle was traveling "nearly 18 times the speed of light" when it went boom.
Of course, his most effective weapons are his boomerangs, which he can use to take out distant enemies, break items, or glide from heights.
It was cashing in a spectacular consumer boom.
The bars are doing a booming business and there are now some fifteen gay clubs, bars, cantinas and lounges, almost all of them in the unique part of town known as the South Side.
Clinton's bio, as I read it - and I'm about 300 pages in - is a new kind of bio, a Boomer bio of an American President.
You have Baby Boomers aging, a lot of them tremendous health care bills.
Bob Hoffman, the endangered species branch chief for NOAA's Southeast regional office, told the Huffington Post on Wednesday that the burns had been temporarily curtailed because of high seas, and that when they resume, NOAA will now make sure each "burn team" -- made up of two shrimp boats hauling booms and an "igniter" boat -- includes a trained observer who will be able to rescue turtles before they are incinerated. Gulf Oil Spill: The Plight of the Sea Turtles
Once the boom mic is out of the way and not likely to clonk me on the head (and it's happened too many times to count), I take a step forward.
Tying a rope to the wheel and to a pole to keep the vessel on course, Jake swung himself onto the boom and beginning to furl the sails himself.
The foghorn boomed out its warning.
There is yet another fiber network, called a mouthful SEA-ME-WE-4, is being constructed to serve the booming Asian demand for bandwidth. Yet another fiber network
We can still listen to the songs of the kokako and saddleback, and the booming of the kakapo.
In the 1950s, a housing boom multiplied the timber industry's reliance on stumpage from public lands, and the agency enjoyed a dramatic boost in political prestige and congressional appropriations.
Guangdong is the heartland of China's manufacturing boom, a commercial gold-rush region whose paddy fields have been concreted over with industrial parks over the past 20 years.
At 193 centimetres, with a huge leap and a booming kick, it was believed that the young star would slot neatly into a key forward post with the Blues.
Oh, and by the way, despite various online rumours Neil is not dead ... he just has an art attack * boom boom* All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News
Its downward trend was disturbed only by the uncertainty of the First World War and a sharp but transient post-war baby boom.
Once again it has been left to a recession to catch out those who overstretched themselves in the boom years.
He opened his mouth to answer but was cut short by a loud booming noise.
Joe Wetsch said into the mike boom that was suspended in front of his mouth.
The long whining whistle of a shell was followed by the dull boom of the explosion.
What comes around goes around and whoops that boomerang is headed right for you. Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
Hejazi gave a speech, which boomed from the speakers over the convocation mall, leaving cookie nibblers stunned.
There was a muted boom as the Captain closed and dogged the ships inner lock shut behind us.
Congratulations to all the proud mothers, fathers, grannies and granddads who have been part of the recent baby boom in the village.
There are sceptics about this poetry boomlet. Times, Sunday Times
The price of farmland is about to boom. Times, Sunday Times
There's an earsplitting boom and Stephen Lang hits the deck hard as the windows implode. Terra Nova Exclusive: On the Set of TV's Hottest New Show
Why is the bottom end of the music spectrum so boomy and annoying? Links for 2008-04-21 « Skid Roche
Unless Boomer had been concealing it for some demented reason, some kind of lamebrained joke. Skinny Legs and All
These are capable of refuelling Navy and NATO aircraft, which use a probe and drogue system instead of a boom and receptacle.
First comes the pumping station, with its booms, waterworks, ' automatic air dischargers ' and reservoir.
It was a sight to see the inmates showing interest in the proceedings and enjoying the heavy bass of music that boomed out through speakers.
Each mouse Razer Boomslang CE have an unique number and its own collector card.
While things are bad now, I've noticed that blue collar families that had jobs during the boom, but couldn't afford to get into one of the overprices houses are now snatching up foreclosures, fixing them up and living the dream. Current.com top stories
The evanescent post - war economic boom was quickly followed by a deep recession.
But has the Fed failed to prevent the imbalances created by the recent boom from getting out of hand?
They could put loudspeakers aboard and play a certain Melanie Safka song during the parade for us old boomers ... I Wonder What NASA's Float Will Look Like - NASA Watch
The store plays a peculiar blend of 70s and 80s rock, massaging the memories of the latter-era boomers who populate my neighborhood.
Did the removal of these restrictions contribute to the consumption boom of the late s?
The commercial banking and finance sector was booming as of September 1991.
But the boom that began in Ireland in the mid-1990s has made the dependency argument less fashionable.
It's simple to rig, by tying the main line to the top eye, clipping a sinker to the swivel link and tie the leader to the swivel at the end of the boom arm.
He added that while the majority of snakes in our area are non-venomous, the ones people should worry about are the boomslangs, puffadders and night adders.
During the long post-war boom, argues Aglietta, such flexibility had not been an important regulating mechanism.
The baby boomers were a population frog moving through the snake of American cultural history, distending its shape by the outsize percentage of the population they represented. Alberta Hunter: Don't Trust Anyone Under 80
This is a terrain in brutal transition: the boomburbs circling the edge of the metropolis only recently existed as country towns or rural settlements far away from the urban fringe.
This is a big reason to combat the creeping banalisation of cosmetic surgery as just another 'harmless' service offered by the booming beauty industry. The Times of India
The overall electronic book business is booming. Times, Sunday Times
While issues such as domain name ownership and cybersquatting (taking control of a website address you have no right to) were clearly red hot at the height of the internet boom, they remain of considerable importance today.
When the first record was over, another voice introduced Bonny again and a third and fourth and fifth poem boomed out over the amplifier. COME TO MECCA
And the thing that stood out was his booming kicks.
A boomburb is a rapidly growing, sprawling city of 100,000 or more on the edge of a major metropolitan area.. Consumer Reports Morning Update
The growth figures suggest Ireland may recapture some of the form of the boom years when economic growth peaked at 11.5 per cent.
Women's football has enjoyed a boom and the Olympics could prompt a similar growth spurt. Times, Sunday Times
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Business is booming for estate agents in the south as the property market hots up.
Government policy encouraged a consumer boom followed by a deep recession.
Combretums grow in large numbers and there are giant sycamore figs, mkuhlus, maroelas, kiaats and spectacular flowering trees such as the white pear and the red and orange kaffirboom.
This growing chasm, initially masked by the housing boom, is now causing seething resentment. Times, Sunday Times
This year has seen a boom in book sales.
Most states took advantage of the boom times to create rainy day funds, storing away the extra cash.
Business is booming for an Avis franchisee in the Carolinas despite well-publicized allegations of racial discrimination against customers.
The current boom in zero-coupon convertibles owes much to the volatility of the equity market.
His beautiful, booming voice had transformed this meek man into a powerful, soulful star. The Sun
Booms are almost by definition a huge transfer of wealth from one section of the population to another leaving many in the lurch.
The forward empennage boom supported the horizontal and vertical stabilizers, and housed the actuating linkage of the rudder and elevator controls.
The square echoed and re-echoed to the boom of a 21-gun salute.
But there is one shining beacon of light - car auctions are booming. The Sun
The researchers need to test the material in a vacuum to see how it might perform in space, so they stretch triangular sheets of the cloth over four booms that form a square, and pump all the air out.
Now brands that were unheard of a year ago are booming. Times, Sunday Times
A puff of smoke from behind a distant rock, the boom of a jezail, and Desmond fell beside the Boy, stunned by a well-aimed shot on the edge of the cheek-bone, the slug glancing off perilously close to the right eye. Captain Desmond, V.C.
As we explain on page 8, what has happened is a classic example of the boom to bust cycle built into capitalism.
As soon as his life raft boomed into the sea, Delaney pulled the quick release tag and dropped from his harness.
A boom has been placed around the stricken vessel.
It still has an elegant and fluid design, understated rather than flash, but sadly it is missing the distinctive boomerang-shaped rear lights.
But thanks to double bogies front and back, wide tracks, and a mighty handy boom, ground disturbance is kept to a minimum.
This study reports on a mesoscale normal fault zone, intraformational in Oligocene argillaceous sediments from the Boom Formation, containing several metre-scale normal fault strands.
There has been a boom in tourism, fed by publicity about the movie filmed there.
His families were booming him for legislator.
It's helpful to have the latest information on what's happening in boomer retirement. FH Boom Daily Digest - May 16 2008 (The Boomer Blog)
Trade on the Barrow was booming with up to 50 boats owned and worked by the Graignamanagh boatmen who worked the navigation system until trade ceased.
The bust remained a bust, and no amount of money magic could restart the boom.
A few kilometres away from Madras city on the Coromandal coast, the boom of chisel and hammer rises in the sandy wilderness, above crashing waves and soughing winds.
In a world where place matters less and less, where place is being obscured by boomburbs, microburbs, and edge cities, I loved the name 'St. Petersburg Times'.
Many of the sites launched at the peak of the Internet boom have now disappeared.
Economic cycles follow a pattern; the most basic pattern is boom, bust, boom, bust.
Equipment used on the shoot is the same as that used by students: Sennheiser and lavalier microphones, boom poles, Fresnel lights, a Red digital camera, and Sony and Panasonic high-definition digital cameras. SFGate: Top News Stories
During this period, there was no particular boom in the construction industry, the major user of ready-mix concrete.
A tremendous boom in cinema building and conversion took place during the next few years and continued unabated until the First World War, by which time there were about 3,500.
In the later stages of a boom, excessive money and credit creation finance inflated asset prices and too much money and credit fuels uneconomic investments.
The soft noises of slumber coming from the kitchen were quite comforting until a very alarming, roaring noise boomed down from the hills behind the post. THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
Off to the west were chalk cliffs, their bases battered by booming surf. CORMORANT
Yet at the same time, especially since the baby boomers came on the scene, many American women have treated the experience of motherhood as an exercise in self-expression - indeed, they do so more fervently than the kibbutzniks.
The only sound is the boom of artillery and the only signs of life are bands of stray cats. Times, Sunday Times
The door swung open and Eric's deep booming voice filled the room.
Rural areas are also reporting a boom in sales figures largely due to an upsurge in tourism because of the good summer.
A month ago there were news reports of a post - Sept. 11 baby boom.
The IT market is growing, thanks to the Internet boom.
With post-war prosperity, the baby boom, and increased college attendance, the masses started coming, whether the museums sought them out or not.
Mr O'Donoghue insisted that just a handful of vagrants were causing trouble for people and that he was not insisting that all were creating a menace in the boom city.
It would not be accurate to describe the post–baby boomer generation as ardently pro-life, as few endorse a total ban on abortion, but they are more willing than their parents to place restrictions on abortion. American Grace
The Whitewoods line will offer packages of cross country boom, skis, poles and bindings.
Baby boomers decide to "downshift" -- fewer CDs. more time -- have figured this out: Owen Byrd and Maria Lines of Palo Alto, Calif., a public-interest lawyer and an engineer, decided to cut their $100,000 income by $20,000 this year to get an extra day at home. Are You Anxious? You're Not Alone
A barely contained energy surged through the crowd; it appeared to ripple as slogan after slogan boomed out across the open space.
A lot of other businesses are also doing particularly well as a result of the housing boom, like construction, plumbers, joiners and builders.
It is unstable, it’s even harder to separate physically than the two isotopes of uranium, and if you try to build a bomb using the easy, “gun” design of the uranium bomb, it will begin to fissle prematurely and thus the bomb will fizzle instead of going boom. Firedoglake » Of Last Throes, Enrichment and Mickey Mouse Watches
Now I could hear the sputter of machine gun fire; the booms and screeches of torpedoes.
I am sure that many of your readers are aware of the recent boom in local and family history.
Nothing sits for long: The booming reseller typically turns its inventory over in less than 20 days.
But claims of a huge population boom swamping services are disputed.
"Get your scone down, you drongo!" someone yelled at me, and the boom thundered over my head.
She was running before the wind -- yawing frightfully -- her staysail let down to act as a sort of extra foresail, -- "scandalized," they call it, -- and her foreboom guyed out over the side. Captains Courageous
I think the parents of baby boomers were much more patient than baby boomers and I think the millennials have no patience.
And, perhaps just as important, do you need members like him to make your businesses a success, or are there enough college kids, job seekers, free agents, and digerati to keep the new networks booming?
California, the world's sixth largest economy and home to booming Silicon Valley, had come perilously close to brown-outs on Thursday.
A recent investment boom should help firms to compete internationally, though in the short term it has worsened the trade deficit.
She said homelessness had mushroomed during the economic boom, with young people making up larger numbers of those sleeping rough.
She pulled out her huge boomerang and threw it hard at Scy.
While some tunes might suggest the hanging of the ten, others evoke sombrero-sporting mariachis and pompadoured teds, Martinis in the Boom-Boom Room or riding shotgun with Squinty Clint.
They couldn't have gotten any firm to hire them as brokers, not when it was the Eighties and the market was booming and the Street was filled with ambitious preppies trying to make it in the business.
In Gwinnett County, Ga., a boom that began more than a decade ago continues with no end in sight.
The effect — coupled with its undefined bass — can make all but the most sparse music sound boomy. Times, Sunday Times
Suddenly, I heard the sound of thunder booming all about outside.
Diary of a Bluestocking: dawn chorus now available to read in skookum boom skip to main Dawn chorus now available to read in skookum boom
Far from being on the edge of the abyss, we could be on the brink of a long boom.
Historically, economic boom times bring florescence in music and the arts, whether in the Florence of the Medici, Habsburg Vienna, or the France of Louis XIV.
When we had wind, we used it to the utmost; but we did not do this without the loss of one or two things; the new jib-sheet broke a couple of times, and one night we carried away the outer bobstay of the jib-boom. The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912
I've hunted successfully with ‘stick’ bows, blowguns, boomerangs, and slingshots.
Sales and gross margins at the Hopkinton (Mass.) company are approaching their boom-time levels.
During the late nineties, as the economy boomed, the city went on an especially extravagant spending spree.
Out spreads the canvas -- alow, aloft-boom-stretched, on both sides, with many a stun 'sail; till like a hawk, with pinions poised, we shadow the sea with our sails, and reelingly cleave the brine. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2)
He made a small fortune in the London property boom.
The war baby boom in the USA was from 1945 ---- 1964 .
The loss of double-digit stock gains slowed consumer spending from its boom times of the late 1990s, leading to excess inventories and cutbacks in factory output.
After leaving us they had attacked him, throwing several boomerangs and waddies at him; he had only one barrel of his gun loaded with shot; they all spread out and surrounded him, gradually approaching from all sides. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
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Motorola is one of the leaders in the global technology boom.
I was going for "boombox" on that red one, but that was after staring at it for 10 minutes and getting a little dizzy. Dastardly Dad Designs
Mildmay stood for a moment, as one in a dream, watching the submergence of the ill-fated _Mercury's_ jib-boom end and fore-topgallant mast-head The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure
So a sheet is a rope, a tack is a turn into the wind and the boom is the spar along the bottom of the sail.
In peacetime, the business became legitimate and was fueled by a consumer boom.
People used boom, skimmers, and even "honey wagons," vacuums designed to suck up liquid manure.
It's what I call the boomerang effect..., he declared. No renegotiation
The boomers are actually doing a lot more travelling than their footloose children.
With the cell phone industry booming, the park's resources and wildlife are under massive strain from miners seeking colombo-tantalite, also known as coltan or tantalum.
When the economy is booming and unemployment is low, it is difficult to attract and retain workers in the stressful, round-the-clock business of call centers.
Somewhere behind me, out of view, David Mellor is having a good time - we know this as he says so, boomingly and often, during the interval. Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
Business was booming, but experienced craftsmen were becoming increasingly difficult to find.
Above the bassy boom of the television there was a banging repetition of sounds.
Once upon a time, back in the late 1970s boom, when many of today's commentators, politicians, central bankers and trade unionists learned their economics, the economy could be allegorised as a fashionable restaurant.
This looks to me more like a boom driven by very simple fundamentals.
The mixed economy boomed, bringing unprecedented prosperity to the middle and working classes.
Through the dense mist Benita crept to the disselboom. Benita, an African romance
Oh, and I read "An Enigmatic New Lambeosaurine Hadrosaur (Reptilia: Dinosauria) from the Upper Shale Member of the Campanian Aguja Formation of Trans-Pecos Texas," a weird beast named Angulomastacator daviesi, known thus far only from its boomerang-shaped maxilla bone. Waking the Witch
There is usually a sonic boom when an aircraft breaks the sound barrier.
In the teaser for season 4.5 there is a shot of a bunch of Sharons giving Boomer a rubdown - oops, nope, that is not what is happening - it looks upon closer inspection that Tyrol's hammy hand is holding something and aiming for Athena-Sharon's neck as she runs and holds Hera. Archive 2008-11-01
Because the Billboard Top 25 tends to "really de-emphasize the last half of the year," Mr. Roseman based the 2011 "United States of Pop" recording, also titled "World Goes Boom," on weekly charts, to account for late-breaking hits. Messages in 2011's Music
The most astounding thing about the dot-com boom was the obscene amount of money that was spent.
But a major factor is that many baby boomers are moving into their peak earning years, according to Sheehan.
I take a boom box in the loo with me.
The boom in new types of martial arts contrasts with a decline in the popularity of their traditional counterparts, such as judo and kendo, or fighting with bamboo swords.
They may soon be looking for some sporting-types to cull their booming population of man-eating crocodiles.
Businesses who dabbled in e-commerce during the boom are now reaping the rewards with more than half now making a 20 per cent return on their initial investment.
Only the creak of the mast and the boom, the rippling of the sail and the gurgling of the passing water reached Miri's ears.
Her voice did not resound in a booming echo, as it did when she had first spoken from her electronic home.
MEXICAN FOLK music blares from a boom box, the sounds of accordions filtering up the stairs.
Yes | No | Report from bighunter wrote 10 weeks 6 days ago or if you just want a gun joke, some police have there guns drawed at a robber there first reaction, boom, boom, then freeze Greatest movie line ever
Boomburb was first used by Robert E. Lang, Ph. D., a professor of urban affairs and planning at Virginia Tech. Lang says he coined boomburb for a 2001 report published by the Fannie Mae Foundation. Buzzword: Boomburg/Boomburb
Conventional discussion of the breakup of the boom and its underlying causes are generally inadequate.

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