BOOMING in a Sentence

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61 example sentences for BOOMING, such as:

1. I'm a product of the postwar baby boom.
2. The boom has created job opportunities.
3. A row of guns were booming at a distant enemy.
4. The economic boom sent property prices skyrocketing.
5. We could hear the enemy guns booming in the distance.

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 Meanings and Examples of BOOMING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
booming
 a.  deep and resonant; flourishing; thriving
Classic Sentence: (39 in 3 pages)
1  Throughout the dismal meal, Gerald's booming voice battered against her ears until she thought she could endure it no longer.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  In the early morning hours before the noises of the town awoke, the cannon at Kennesaw Mountain could be heard faintly, far away, a low dim booming that might have passed for summer thunder.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
3  Somewhere there was a war and cannon booming and burning towns and men who rotted in hospitals amid sickening-sweet stinks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
4  A thaw which stripped the snow from the sidewalks; a ringing iron night when the lakes could be heard booming; a clear roistering morning.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
5  A bright hard winter day, the wind shrill, black and silver clouds booming across the sky, everything in panicky motion during the brief light.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  She sat in the dining-room and listened through the door to Bjornstam's booming and Bea's giggles.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
7  The town was booming, as a result of the war price of wheat.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
8  Meanwhile the boat was still booming through the mist, the waves curling and hissing around us like the erected crests of enraged serpents.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
9  The artillery booming, forward, rearward, and on the flanks made jumble of ideas of direction.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
10  A row of guns were booming at a distant enemy.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
11  The boys cried out to each other, but the roaring wind and the booming thunderblasts drowned their voices utterly.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
12  I could hear the booming now and then, further and further off, and by and by, after an hour, I didn't hear it no more.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII.
13  They turned around the foot of the island and started up the channel on the Missouri side, under steam, and booming once in a while as they went.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII.
14  And the animals heard, from the direction of the farm buildings, the solemn booming of a gun.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
15  A little after midnight came a strange sound from over the sea, and high overhead the air began to carry a strange, faint, hollow booming.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
Example Sentence: (22 in 2 pages)
1  China wants to learn from India's success in IT and expand international outsourcing, such as call centers, a booming sector in India.
2  Only the tribesmen increased their clamor, war-drums booming and voices raised in savage folk songs.
3  "Who needs a microphone?" cried the mayor in his booming voice.
4  The economy is booming and small businesses are flourishing.
5  We could hear the enemy guns booming in the distance.
6  He was falsely jovial, with his booming, mirthless laugh.
7  This boom in adult education, in turn, helps to raise the intellectual standard of the whole country.
8  Brisbane has become the boom town for Australian film and television.
9  The boom was fuelled by accelerated demand for consumer products.
10  Government policy encouraged a consumer boom followed by a deep recession.
11  An economic boom followed, especially in housing and construction.
12  Record profits in the retail market indicate a boom in the economy.
13  The boom has created job opportunities.
14  I'm a product of the postwar baby boom.
15  The economic boom sent property prices skyrocketing.