How to Use boom box in a Sentence

boom box

noun

• Unlike a record player—or the reel-to-reel tape player—the boom box was both portable and commensurate with the scale and the volume of the city.
  — Jon Michaud, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2023
• Lucky for this guy, that boom box is a blow-up version!
  — Laurren Welch, Country Living, 22 Sep. 2022
• Fans were able to buy it on LP, CD, and — find that old boom box — a cassette.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2022
• As the night wore on, a hip-hop artist who goes by the name NO$HU did free-style rapping as a boom box blared.
  — oregonlive, 31 July 2020
• Carry around a boom box, tease your hair, and wear a leotard.
  — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 8 July 2022
• Yes, of course, for sure, the Cubs should have a day to welcome Sammy Sosa’s smashed boom box back to Wrigley.
  — Steve Rosenbloom, chicagotribune.com, 3 May 2018
• Tinkling sounds coming from a boom box at the stage near the front, which was not music.
  — Hazlitt, 26 July 2023
• Concerned about their boom box getting wet, Foti moved it out of harm’s way.
  — Tom Maxwell, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• During her teenage years, the Backstreet Boys blared from a boom box in her bedroom.
  — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 7 July 2020
• 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
• Next to an elaborate sound system was a lo-fi boom box.
  — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
• The John Cusack days of holding a boom box outside your window are over.
  — Redbook Editors, Redbook, 15 July 2015
• The Masked Singer brought out the boom boxes, big hair, and blindingly bright clothing for a trip back to the neon decade on Wednesday night.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 30 Mar. 2023
• Skiers dance to music from their boom box on the lift at Solitude on Saturday, April 17.
  — Julie Jag, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Apr. 2021
• Two more cameras near the boom boxes and one at the other end of the trail recorded wildlife reactions.
  — WIRED, 8 July 2023
• 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
• Tanjoca said, her words booming from a boom box, and more than one person did.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 17 May 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
• 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
• The store’s front lot was a breakdancing battleground where kids from the neighborhood would lay out tiles, turn on the boom box and show off their moves.
  — Haeven Gibbons, Dallas News, 16 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• No need for the single boom box on a cart to facilitate the beats for the entire facility.
  — Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2022
• Coming out of someone’s brownstone or bodega or a boom box, there's always one song.
  — NBC News, 20 June 2020
• A dozen compact Hispanic men play short-field soccer; a boom box on the sidelines blares mariachi.
  — Mike Sager, Esquire, 4 June 2015
• 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
• Stripped of its back seat, the rear compartment has mutated into a giant boom box.
  — Georg Kacher, Car and Driver, 27 Sep. 2022
• These little Bluetooth speakers resemble an old school boom box but are small enough to fit in a pocket.
  — Christen A. Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 21 July 2019
• All three animals were reacting to sound bites from boom boxes in the woods, part of a study measuring the effect of outdoor recreationists’ noise on wildlife.
  — WIRED, 8 July 2023

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024