How to Use baby boom in a Sentence

baby boom

noun
  • There was a baby boom in the U.S. after World War II.
  • The healthy offspring sparked a baby boom among the panthers.
    Craig Pittman, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2021
  • At the time of the 1950 census, the baby boom was just getting started.
    Zachary Smith, cleveland, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The real cause for alarm, though, is not the prospect of a baby boom or baby bust.
    Natalia Kanem, CNN, 31 July 2021
  • Take a look through the gallery above to see how some of the parents from the 2017 baby boom are doing one year later.
    Daniela Sternitzky-Di Napoli, Houston Chronicle, 29 May 2018
  • Add a steady supply of tourists who are willing to feed the friendly birds, and the small town had a duck baby boom.
    Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 24 July 2023
  • Will coronavirus cause a baby boom, or is that just a myth?
    Amy Haneline, USA TODAY, 9 Oct. 2020
  • The Kit Kat made a shift to a more family-style establishment in the ’50s, with the baby boom in full swing.
    Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Oct. 2021
  • The Dallas and Fort Worth zoos are having a summer baby boom.
    Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 1 Oct. 2020
  • There does seem to be a bit of a celebrity baby boom happening right now.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2020
  • This year is proving to be something of a royal baby boom.
    Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 24 Oct. 2018
  • With the baby boom came more attention to children’s toys.
    Ann Landi, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
  • For others, the baby boom will be in nine months, after all this time sheltering in place.
    Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 5 May 2020
  • Tanner, like Dylan and Scorsese, was born slightly ahead of the baby boom.
    New York Times, 17 July 2019
  • That, in a broad and secular sense, is the story of the baby boom generation.
    Barton Swaim, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2021
  • People love to joke about the baby boom nine months from now — as if everyone stuck at home can just choose to get pregnant.
    refinery29.com, 7 May 2020
  • Baby boomers need a new cradle The baby boom burst has long been predicted.
    Bychloe Berger, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Musk is also far from the only billionaire with his or her own baby boom.
    Jenae Barnes, Forbes, 10 July 2022
  • As the baby boom retires, the market for high-end home audio is likely to continue to grow.
    Zenger News, Forbes, 17 May 2022
  • If this year is anything like 2019, the Hollywood baby boom will keep going strong.
    Glamour, 7 Apr. 2020
  • Baby August kicked off what appears to be a bit of a baby boom for the British royal family.
    Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 June 2021
  • Rolling Stone, that bible of baby boom rock, is attempting to reinvent itself.
    Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2021
  • Demand for long-term care is expected to climb over the next decade as the baby boom generation ages.
    Tony Leys, NBC News, 22 Jan. 2023
  • There was an echo of earlier baby booms, which increased the number of women of child-bearing age.
    The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
  • The next 40 years were treated in a brief appendix that gestured at the postwar baby boom and its little boxes.
    Alexandra Lange, Curbed, 6 June 2019
  • Breeding with Texas cougars saved the Florida panther from extinction and even led to a baby boom.
    Discover Magazine, 11 Feb. 2020
  • The announcement comes amid a kind-of mini-baby boom among Kentucky politicians.
    Mary Ramsey, The Courier-Journal, 4 Aug. 2021
  • The Covid crisis pushed a lot of people in the baby boom generation out of the workforce, and many of them probably won’t be coming back.
    Justin Lahart, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Had the birthrates of the baby boom era persisted until the present, the post-1965 wave of immigration would have been little more than a cultural blip.
    Reihan Salam, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2018
  • This extra money may help explain the baby boom in the laptop class, Hannes Schwandt, one of the authors of the fertility paper, told me.
    Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 28 Nov. 2022

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