How to Use baby boom in a Sentence

baby boom

noun
  • Could the Year of the Dragon bring the baby boom that Asia needs?
    Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • The host poked fun at the recent baby boom in the family.
    Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 31 Oct. 2017
  • At the same time, the end of the postwar baby boom was starting to shrink the labor force in more and more countries.
    Ruchir Sharma, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The Year of the Golden Pig, which has a decades-long cycle, has also led to baby booms.
    Lyric Li, Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Just don't ask Griner to be a nanny during the Mercury baby boom.
    Jeff Metcalfe, azcentral, 10 May 2018
  • 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
  • The new arrival caps off a tiny baby boom in the Gifford family.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 1 Dec. 2023
  • During the baby boom between the ’40s and ’60s, the number of child marriages in the U.S. increased, along with the number of children born.
    Ashley Belanger, Teen Vogue, 5 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • Lionel Labrie is part of a first-time-baby boom that hit the Admirals this season.
    Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 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
  • The company got its start selling cribs and carriages just as the baby boom was about to explode.
    Joan Verdon, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • Her and her husband Doug Emhoff’s finances, revealed in disclosure forms released by the White House over the past few years, are reflective of their position on the tail-end of the baby boom.
    Byalicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 29 July 2024

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