How to Use boomer in a Sentence

boomer

noun

• People used to think skiing would take a huge hit when the baby boomers were gone.
  — John Meyer, The Know, 2 Dec. 2019
• And for the past 30 years, baby boomers have been running the show.
  — Charlotte Alter, Time, 23 Jan. 2020
• Once again, boomers were more traditional in their response.
  — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 12 Jan. 2020
• Baby boomers may remember glimpsing at a grainy, black-and-white moon landing five decades ago.
  — Molly Glick, Popular Science, 30 Jan. 2020
• State officials predict job growth will continue to slow down as baby boomers retire.
  — Bill Salisbury, Twin Cities, 5 Dec. 2019
• The number went up even as the death rate went down, because the population is growing and a large group are retirement age baby boomers.
  — Mike Stobbe, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Jan. 2020
• The number went up even as the death rate went down, because the population is growing and a large group consists of retirement age baby boomers.
  — CBS News, 30 Jan. 2020
• Experts said that the new findings could partly reflect the fact that baby boomers are aging and the health effects of chronic alcohol use have become more apparent.
  — Matt Richtel, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2020
• Baby boomers, once flush with disposable income from their prime earning years, are now entering retirement, with many getting stingy with savings and worried about health care.
  — Fox News, 24 Jan. 2020
• As the baby boomer generation prepares for its next step, many of this generation may choose to downsize from their large homes to smaller houses, leaving behind a wave of homes on the market.
  — Amanda Molitor, The Denver Post, 26 Dec. 2019
• There’s been a lot of intergenerational sparring in the public square of late, especially between millennials and boomers.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2019
• The median age of today’s home buyer is 50, indicating a swell of boomers buying alone, either as divorcées or having never been married.
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 30 Dec. 2019
• Many boomers purchased homes at the height of their careers in the 1990s.
  — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2024
• Any boomer will tell you that no one wants to work these days.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2022
• Why is Portland so low, in the 47th spot, on the baby boomer list?
  — oregonlive, 25 Jan. 2022
• That compares to 16% of baby boomers who said the same thing.
  — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2020
• While 42% of Gen Xers feel burnout at work, that number drops to 25% for boomers.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2024
• And after this, a whole lot more boomers and Gen-Xers might too.
  — Vulture, 6 July 2023
• Like many boomer bands, the B-52’s have found a second act in Las Vegas.
  — Mina Tavakoli, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• The boomers and Gen X-ers in the room laughed uncomfortably.
  — Marcela Valdes, New York Times, 28 June 2023
• But boomers may not be as well off as the headlines suggest.
  — Jasmine Li, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2024
• So too did the death of uber baby boomer Michael Lang, 77, who came up with Woodstock.
  — David Colton, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2022
• More than 45% of Gen Zers said they haven’t been asked to donate, compared with 3.8% of boomers.
  — Sara Herschander, Fortune, 6 July 2023
• When the first boomers were toddlers, TV was a novelty.
  — Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2023
• Move along, boomers, and take your old-school paper ticket stubs with you.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
• Some boomers are also in on a version of the two-house solution.
  — Arianne Cohen, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2022
• But when Dylan passes, the earth will shake as every white male boomer brain breaks in half.
  — John Hodgman, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2021
• Others defend the extras as a way to appeal to the waves of boomers who are retiring.
  — Jordan Rau, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2023
• The boomers are more retired, so some of their ideas about business may be from the past, and not as in tune with the experiences of those of us who are in their 30s and 40s.
  — Henry Fernandez, Hartford Courant, 30 July 2024
• In Deborah, the show offers a lonely boomer fusspot with the politics of Dwight Eisenhower.
  — Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 July 2024

Last Updated: 24 Sep 2024