How to Use boomer in a Sentence

boomer

noun
  • Any boomer will tell you that no one wants to work these days.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Even boomers know which buttons must be pushed.
    — Erin Clack, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Only 21% of boomers shared that view.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Move along, boomers, and take your old-school paper ticket stubs with you.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2023
  • But his next punt was a boomer, 52 yards in the air leading to a fair catch.
    — Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, 8 Sep. 2019
  • The baby boomers run it now and the Gen Xers will run it next.
    — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 12 Nov. 2019
  • If boomers sneeze, the rest of the economy catches a cold.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2026
  • And after this, a whole lot more boomers and Gen-Xers might too.
    — Vulture, 6 July 2023
  • Some boomers play a large role in caring for their grandchildren.
    — Holly Garcia, Parents, 11 Jan. 2026
  • That compares to 16% of baby boomers who said the same thing.
    — Lance Lambert, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2020
  • The high court ruling could be seen as sort of a revenge of the baby-boomers.
    — Richard Wolf, Indianapolis Star, 21 June 2018
  • 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
  • Even the younger activists in the civil-rights movement were not boomers.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2019
  • Adi’s not here to defend himself and other boomers.
    — Harvard Business Review, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Both groups have more money in stocks, but boomers saw much bigger gains, which helped grow their wealth.
    — Jessica Coacci, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Feigleson, a late boomer, has filled out his once-skinny frame.
    — Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The drag from boomers on the housing market is just one of several.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Some boomers are also in on a version of the two-house solution.
    — Arianne Cohen, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2022
  • Jessie asks, with the innocence of someone first unboxed by a boomer.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
  • The crowd of about 90 volunteers was mostly white and boomers.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2025
  • Why is Portland so low, in the 47th spot, on the baby boomer list?
    — oregonlive, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Even wealthy boomers who have retired with at least six figures in savings are feeling the pinch.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • Many boomers purchased homes at the height of their careers in the 1990s.
    — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Are boomers propping up the economy?
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 1 June 2026
  • That marked the second year in a row, but just the third time in the last decade, that boomers were the largest share of buyers.
    — Cory Smith, Baltimore Sun, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Many boomers look for large-print books, and the ability to change the font size of text on e-readers is a big plus.
    — Jan Burns, Houston Chronicle, 12 Feb. 2018
  • In comparison, just 18% of boomers skip lunch twice or more per week, the least of any age group.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Trump is one of the baby boomer men with his finger in the dike trying to hold back the tide of history.
    — David Zurawik, baltimoresun.com, 22 Sep. 2017

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