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.