sonic boom

It may not be a sonic boom, but it is the pop of a starting pistol.

The last band I was in was kind of a Sonic Youth rip-off band, and I thought that that was my calling.

Turkey has had more than a decade of economic boom, and is now the sixth-most-visited tourist destination in the world.

“I was watching ‘Daniel The Tiger’ with my kid and I heard two shots like ‘boom-boom,’” he said.

But the dress was its own unapologetic sonic boom—and was immediately much-copied.

Christie has a lot riding on fulfilling his promise of shepherding Atlantic City into a third boom era.

There was a distant, dull boom in the air—a repeated heavy thud.

“Boom” refers, of course, to the large amount of support which Cleveland obtained on his second election to the Presidency.

A church clock struck the hour of seven, its clangor intruding upon the silence only as a muffled boom.

It is a generally accepted axiom that a public man cannot afford to be modest in these go-ahead days of "boom."

And as I watched the canvas shake and heard it boom and flap I heartily welcomed it.