How to Use boomer in a Sentence

boomer

noun
  • Millennials are also better-off financially than boomers were at the same age.
    Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Gen-Xers are more likely than millennials or boomers to have exhausted their credit, the survey found.
    Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Now, the youngest boomers are in their early sixties and the oldest are nearing their eighties.
    Paige Hagy, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Because one huge slice of the workforce continues to leave in droves: the baby boomers.
    Gad Levanon For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Replying to @Jaime Suzanne cue all the boomers commenting ‘this is unp ...
    Chandra Steele, PCMAG, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Then after the crisis, boomers doubled-down on a lot of those bad policies.
    The Economist, 10 July 2019
  • Okay, that was predictably polite and short on drama (God bless boomers).
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Some boomers play a large role in caring for their grandchildren.
    Holly Garcia, Parents, 10 Oct. 2024

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