Sentences with boom
boom
B b - An economic boom followed, especially in housing and construction.
- The boom in the sport's popularity has meant more calls for stricter safety regulations. [+ in]
- By 1988 the economy was booming. [VERB]
- 'Ladies,' boomed Helena, without a microphone, 'we all know why we're here tonight.' [VERB with quote]
- Music boomed out from loudspeakers. [VERB PREPOSITION preposition/adverb]
- The stillness of night was broken by the boom of a cannon.
- Business boomed
- The boom of the sea
- A baby boom
- The clock boomed out the hour
- The boom of a derrick, a microphone boom
- Business boomed
- They boomed him for mayor
- China's economic boom has produced a growing hunger for energy that only foreign supplies can satisfy.Investment advisers are predicting a boom in oil stocks because an oil shortage is developing.A financial boom is an increase in economic activity with rapid growth and rising prices.
- boom prices.
- The government has lowered the boom on tax evaders.
- The boom of the surf.
- Thunder boomed in the distance and lightning flashes lit up the horizon. The cannon boomed, recoiled, and spewed a heavy smoke cloud. Beneath the cliff, the sea was booming on the rocks. I can hear the organ slowly booming from the chapel.
- I was about to reach for the marmalade, when I heard the telephone tootling out in the hall and rose to attend to it. “Bertram Wooster's residence,” I said, having connected with the instrument. “Wooster in person at this end. Oh hullo,” I added, for the voice that boomed over the wire was that of Mrs Thomas Portarlington Travers of Brinkley Court, Market Snodsbury, near Droitwich – or, putting it another way, my good and deserving Aunt Dahlia. [. . . ] “I'd give a tenner to have Aubrey Upjohn here at this moment. ” “You can get him for nothing. He's in Uncle Tom's study. ” Her face lit up. “He is?” [Aunt Dahlia] threw her head back and inflated the lungs. “UPJOHN!” she boomed, rather like someone calling the cattle home across the sands of Dee, and I issued a kindly word of warning. “Watch that blood pressure, old ancestor. ”
- Men in grey robes slowly booming the drums of death.
- To boom out a sail; to boom off a boat
- The population boomed in recent years. Business was booming.
- To boom railroad or mining shares