Did you hear the loud boom yesterday afternoon?.    From LearnThat.org. 

The demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

However, most of the "boom" is aimed at younger audience.    From Wordnik.com.  [MIND MELD: Guide to International SF/F Part IV] Reference

Ramping up debt in a boom is a recipe for short-term political gain that few other countries followed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference

The Latin American "boom" novelists are far better than peninsular Spanish novelists of the same period, like Goytisolo and Benet.    From Wordnik.com.  [¡Bemsha SWING!] Reference

Shanahan wanted to skate and boom from the circles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Embrace young stars but appreciate the vets still going strong in the present] Reference

Back home, this boom is becoming a source of worry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot Potato in China's Rising Food Costs] Reference

The real estate boom is everywhere that's desirable.    From Wordnik.com.  [La Paz] Reference

The Northeast's shale-gas boom is being domesticated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americans (Sort of) Fracking] Reference

But the service boom is not limited to the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prospects for the North American Economy: 1985 and Beyond] Reference

Nigeria's Internet boom is being driven by 419 fraudsters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: October 27, 2002 - November 2, 2002 Archives] Reference

Coolidge was able to make this approach work in boom times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » What Would Spending More Time on the Economy Accomplish] Reference

I think the baby boom is the direct result of the World Cup.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baby Boom in Germany] Reference

An oil boom is turning farmers in the west into millionaires.    From Wordnik.com.  [Usually red state, N.D. not sold on McCain] Reference

I think the oil boom is hiding a lot of problems around here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Easter Lemming Liberal News] Reference

Next, by means of the shears, I hoisted the main boom on board.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 37] Reference

Even though the boom is now over, surprisingly little has changed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Executive Privilege] Reference

Any market where there has been a construction boom is going to face it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Real estate agents are next « BuzzMachine] Reference

If peace comes, what are we going to do when the rearmament boom is over?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Problems of the British Empire] Reference

There are places in the book where I actually say the boom is not healthy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Real Estate Won’t Go Bust, And Other Book-Title Bloopers | Disinformation] Reference

Lago Vista, like many communities born in the housing boom, is now under stress.    From Wordnik.com.  [VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » The Ever-Expanding Steveosphere–Cisneros And The Diversity Recession] Reference

Of course the commodity price boom is important, and I will return to this later.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Interdependence of Nations and the Peace of Canada] Reference

In the US, the post-WWII baby boom is generally considered to have begun in 1946.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics in Science Fiction #1 Politics is People] Reference

There was a boom from the photocopier room, and the floor of the office vibrated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Right Time, Right Place « A Fly in Amber] Reference

By all appearances, the blog boom is the most democratized revolution in media ever.    From Wordnik.com.  [2006 February « Squash] Reference

A third-term boom for Grant was effectively crushed by an adverse resolution in the House.    From Wordnik.com.  [The United States Since the Civil War] Reference

But if the import boom is actually creating only a facade of growth, that's a different story.    From Wordnik.com.  [Easter Lemming Liberal News] Reference

The explosiveness that makes it a boom comes from the dam breaking and the pressure being relieved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scripting News for 8/3/07 « Scripting News Annex] Reference

The YouTube boom is great as it allows us to see the best and the worst of what people are doing creatively.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Panic Attack be the next District 9? | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News] Reference