Word Finder - boomed

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To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound.

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I can hear the organ slowly booming from the chapel.

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(of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder.

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To make something boom.

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Men in grey robes slowly boom the drums of death.

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To publicly praise.

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To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.

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To extend, or push, with a boom or pole.

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to boom off a boat

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(usually with "up" or "down") To raise or lower with a crane boom.

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To flourish, grow, or progress.

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Business was booming.

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To cause to advance rapidly in price.

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to boom railroad or mining shares

His voice fairly boomed over the phone.

A familiar voice boomed from the kitchen doorway.

The land of the barbarians, his father boomed from across the ship's hull.

The skies opened once again as he reached the house, and thunder boomed in the distance.

Business boomed throughout the 1920s, but during the Great Depression the pear market all but dried up.

Fish in general boomed during the Devonian, rapidly diversifying to fill newly-available niches.

Suddenly there was a startling flash of brilliant white lightning; thunder rolled and boomed out.

Though they have been on the market for a few years, e-readers have boomed in popularity due to increased competition and the additional uses the device can perform.

In Britain and especially America, the economy boomed, culture flourished, and a free-spirited attitude prevailed.

After 1900, the U.S. auto industry boomed once Ford created his famous and affordable Ford Model T in 1908.

Anyone looking for resources for French to English translation has plenty of tools at their fingertips now that the Internet has boomed.

Although licensing confusion and accusation of price fixing ensued as these direct marketing music clubs figured out how to deal with the demand for each others' release, business boomed for all three.

As fast as Kris ran, he couldn't catch her.  He grew more baffled when she seemed to pull ahead of him without any sign of the exhaustion she'd showed when they stopped.  Desperation could motivate, and so could fear for her sister.  He pushed himself harder to catch her.  Thunder boomed overhead.  Forms he assumed were demons swooped above the canopy, casting shadows.  He caught glimpses of fur and wings through leaves and ran until his chest was heaving.  Hannah remained ahead of him, though he realized he was beginning to gain on her.  He had to reach her before the demons did and swept her away, as they had Kiki.

The familiar voice of Jake Weller boomed in his ears.

From in front and especially from the right, in the unlifting smoke the guns boomed, and out of the mysterious domain of smoke that overlay the whole space in front, quick hissing cannon balls and slow whistling shells flew unceasingly.

More thunder boomed.  Katie wondered what other kinds of storms the underworld might have.  Would it rain something other than black water?  With her luck, it'd rain bugs, like the beetle nest she skirted.

The Russians stood in serried ranks behind Semenovsk village and its knoll, and their guns boomed incessantly along their line and sent forth clouds of smoke.

It took a short siesta at noon, and boomed once more toward night, as the sun was withdrawing his influence.