boom

[buːm]

Definition:
1. A deep prolonged loud noise.
2. A state of economic prosperity.
3. Make a resonant sound, like artillery.
4. Hit hard.

Use 'boom' in a sentence:

1. But the textile boom lasted only several decades.
2. Public transport has not been able to cope adequately with the travel boom.
3. The North American shale gas boom has resulted in record low prices there.
4. Although you'd think business would have boomed during the war, there was only a small spike in interest.
5. Los Angeles had a real estate boom and bust in the 1880s; that's hard to believe.
6. A voice came booming over the PA.
7. The boom of the 1980s led to a taste for petrol-guzzling cars.
8. He had a booming voice.
9. The corruption does not seem to have muted the country's prolonged economic boom.
10. The rapid development of the Internet has created a boom in e-commerce.
11. At present, we are witnessing another building boom.
12. U.S. manufacturers may find the export boom stopping dead in its tracks.
13. We must avoid the damaging boom-bust cycles which characterized the 1980s.
14. The boom in the sport's popularity has meant more calls for stricter safety regulations.
15. A voice boomed out from the darkness.
16. One force behind the import-export boom has passed all but unnoticed: the rapidly falling cost of getting goods to market.
17. Business is booming.
18. It's no accident that the boom in police series on TV coincided with the decline of the Western.
19. The economic boom was fueled by easy credit.
20. Sales are booming in Japan, which has overtaken Britain as the Mini's biggest market.
21. The cannons boom, the band plays.
22. Perhaps the best example of boom growth and bust decline is the Grand Banks fishery.
23. There was considerable scepticism about the Chancellor's forecast of a booming economy.
24. The 1980s were indeed boom years.
25. The stillness of the night was broken by the boom of a cannon.
26. But, there's a type of rapid expansion, what might be called the hysterical or irrational boom that pretty much always leads to a bust.
27. At the premium end of the market, business is booming.
28. Brisbane has become the boom town for Australian film and television.
29. An economic boom followed, especially in housing and construction.
30. Hopefulness fueled America's baby boom.
31. The current business-book boom was launched in 1982 by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman with In Search of Excellence.
32. I'm a product of the postwar baby boom.
33. An oil boom would also mean a multibillion-dollar windfall in tax revenues, royalties and leasing fees for Alaska and the Federal Government.
34. An oil boom would also mean a multibillion dollar windfall in tax revenues, royalties and leasing fees for Alaska and the Federal Government.
35. By almost any measure, there is a boom in Internet-based instruction.
36. 'Get out of my sight!' he boomed.
37. The only way to satisfy the golf boom was to build more courses.
38. He made a small fortune in the London property boom.
39. He made a small fortune in the property boom.
40. Business was booming.
41. Record profits in the retail market indicate a boom in the economy.
42. Thunder boomed in the sky overhead.
43. Outside, thunder boomed and crashed.
44. Business is booming and foreigners are scrambling to invest.
45. Living standards improved rapidly during the post-war boom.
46. The collective name for mast, boom and sails on a boat is the 'rig'.
47. By the 1980s, the computer industry was booming.
48. The technology boom sent share prices into the stratosphere.
49. This boom has been engineered by the Chancellor for short-term political reasons.