How to Use boom box in a Sentence

boom box

noun
  • Carry around a boom box, tease your hair, and wear a leotard.
    — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 8 July 2022
  • And for me, growing up there was one band blasting from my boom box.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 10 Apr. 2025
  • What if Bertha holds up a boom box outside George’s club?
    — Alice Burton, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Concerned about their boom box getting wet, Foti moved it out of harm’s way.
    — Tom Maxwell, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Tinkling sounds coming from a boom box at the stage near the front, which was not music.
    — Hazlitt, 26 July 2023
  • Armed with their boom boxes and cassette tapes, the boys braved the stench and recorded songs.
    — Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The Yoto player is a very cool piece of kid tech that’s part radio and part kids’ boom box.
    — Meredith Woerner, Variety, 16 July 2024
  • Tanjoca said, her words booming from a boom box, and more than one person did.
    — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 17 May 2020
  • Ricky sings from a little boom box, as shy excitement flits across Goli’s face.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2025
  • There was some sort of Buddhist prayer being chanted out of an old boom box on the top shelf.
    — Iman Hariri-Kia, Teen Vogue, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Salsa music plays from a boom box on the counter, where Amadeo tends to a pair of customers.
    — Harrison Hill, AFAR Media, 19 Aug. 2025
  • In one photo, a bunch of teens crowd into the frame, in which somebody’s giant boom box takes pride of place.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Coming out of someone’s brownstone or bodega or a boom box, there's always one song.
    — NBC News, 20 June 2020
  • These are our favorite portable speakers of all shapes and sizes, from clip-ons to a massive boom box.
    — Christopher Null, Wired, 30 Mar. 2021
  • During her teenage years, the Backstreet Boys blared from a boom box in her bedroom.
    — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 7 July 2020
  • One friend chose to pose in a lace gown and giant pink bunny slippers, another with a boom box on their lap.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 23 May 2020
  • Revelers formed mosh pits, blared boom boxes and climbed onto street lights, cars and even billboards.
    — Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 21 May 2025
  • Two more cameras near the boom boxes and one at the other end of the trail recorded wildlife reactions.
    — WIRED, 8 July 2023
  • Stripped of its back seat, the rear compartment has mutated into a giant boom box.
    — Georg Kacher, Car and Driver, 27 Sep. 2022
  • The John Cusack days of holding a boom box outside your window are over.
    — Redbook Editors, Redbook, 15 July 2015
  • In the kitchen, things are slowing down; workers mop the floor as a boom box blasts the Grateful Dead.
    — Alana Semuels/waitsfield, TIME, 24 Feb. 2025
  • There was a table in the center, which held a boom box and a computer, and behind it a token chair or two.
    — Dina Temple-Raston, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Fans were able to buy it on LP, CD, and — find that old boom box — a cassette.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2022
  • There’s a huge boom box towering over the arena in La Concorde!
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Staff members greeted each child on the sidewalk in front of the building while a teacher played music from a boom box.
    — David Owen, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Protest leaders rallied the crowd through loudspeakers, and a van rolled past with music blasting from a boom box.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 27 Sep. 2022
  • And retro-looking devices, such as the boom box or Victrola record players, are hip again.
    — Tom Roland, Billboard, 20 Feb. 2020
  • So a home stereo with a small antenna mounted near a window or on the outside of your house will fare better than a boom box.
    — Heather Newman, ELLE Decor, 5 July 2012
  • This could quite possibly be one of the coolest builds for your tween—a roller skate that can be transformed into a skateboard or a boom box.
    — Jacquelyn Smith, Parents, 27 Nov. 2025
  • There was also a 20-year-old boom box that sat handsomely on my mother’s nightstand.
    — J.a. Kohl, Good Housekeeping, 6 Mar. 2020

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