How to Use boomer in a Sentence

boomer

noun

• Some boomers play a large role in caring for their grandchildren.
  — Holly Garcia, Parents, 10 Oct. 2024
• The youngest baby boomers are edging toward retirement.
  — Alexandria Burris, Indianapolis Star, 23 July 2019
• As the baby boomer population gets older, the need for home care workers and personal care aides is only expected to grow.
  — Madeleine Joung, Time, 15 July 2019
• Whether millennials and Gen X and boomers are ready for it, getting famous online is something that could happen to their kids.
  — cleveland.com, 18 July 2019
• And one-third of the state’s doctors and nurse practitioners are baby boomers who are reaching retirement age, further depleting the workforce.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2019
• His politics hew closely to a baby-boomer outline, which is to say that they are deeply felt, heraldically blue, and largely incoherent just beneath the surface.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019
• Anne Reid plays the comfortable white boomer Muriel, whose large suburban home becomes a refuge for her family when the financial systems buckle.
  — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 22 July 2019
• Many boomers purchased homes at the height of their careers in the 1990s.
  — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2024
• The baby boomers run it now and the Gen Xers will run it next.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 12 Nov. 2019
• Any boomer will tell you that no one wants to work these days.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2022
• But his next punt was a boomer, 52 yards in the air leading to a fair catch.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, 8 Sep. 2019
• Why is Portland so low, in the 47th spot, on the baby boomer list?
  — oregonlive, 25 Jan. 2022
• And for the past 30 years, baby boomers have been running the show.
  — Charlotte Alter, Time, 23 Jan. 2020
• 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
• Even the younger activists in the civil-rights movement were not boomers.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2019
• 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
• People used to think skiing would take a huge hit when the baby boomers were gone.
  — John Meyer, The Know, 2 Dec. 2019
• 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
• More than 1 in 4 baby boomer RNs intend to retire within the year.
  — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
• One economist has even blamed boomers for the affordability crisis as the generation is divorcing and still creating new households, adding to the competition for real estate with millennials and younger Americans.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 2 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024