56 Verbs to Use for the Word boom

Only as the boat hovered for a moment at the face of the cliff could the exploring party hear, far within, the hollow boom that told of breakers on a distant, subterranean beach.

"Vhen I sees you mit dose tumblers, I gives some big bang-bang, boom-boom, hey?"

It was Colonel George Harvey, then editor of Harper's Weekly, who had started the boom to make Woodrow Wilson President.

"Dolly 'ud like to buy a boom," she said, at last, "a great, big boom; and gan-pa 'ill smoke his pipe again to-night.

And under that sullen mantle the dark flames of the petrol still glowed; to the right, as we looked back, was the blazing skeleton of the ship, and on the left Antwerp itself, the rich, old, beautiful, comfortable city, all but hidden, and now and then sending forth the boom of an exploding shell like a groan.

Well, lots of them were fired off, and then Buddy Pigg got some empty bags, and his soldiers blew them up, and they cracked 'em down, and they went off "Boom!

Explosion followed explosion, some of them coming in hollow, reverberating booms, others sounding as if in mid-air.

30 As his heroic worth struck envy dumb, Who took the Dutchman, and who cut the boom.

Despair began to get the upper hand, when I caught the dull boom of a pistol-shot, and it so startled me that I could not decide the direction it came from.

Outside was the vague, indefinable night drone of a city asleep, unbroken by any sound that was distinguishable, until finally there came the distant boom of a clock.

There was a tremendous roar, drowning for a moment even the boom of the cannon.

I instinctively threw myself into the bottom of the boat to escape the boom.

However, at that moment the bell rang, and exclaiming, 'Anither boom in trade!'

"Moffitt had hauled up the courses and squared the main yard, as much to make a diversion as anything else, although the men thought it was to keep old Sadler from boarding us; and as they rushed up on deck they filled the booms; lee rigging, hammocknetting and every available spot from which a sight of the old fellow could be had.

The noises from the square belowthe clink of the donkey's hoofs upon the pavement as they struggled up the steep alley laden with charcoal; the screams of childrenthe clamor of women's voices moving to and fro with their wooden shoesand the boom of the church-bells sounding overhead for morning masscame to him as in a dream.

I had just time to grasp this boom, when we were hurried into the Cascades; in these I was instantly buried, and nearly suffocated.

"'Tis the brigantine, gybing his main-boom!

" "Haul the spanker-boom to windward," shouted the pilot; "lower away the boats, and tow the ship's head roundclear away the stream anchoraft gib-sheetboard main tack, again.

You are having a little boom here now: give it the top boom price, if you like.

The bird hit, "boom", jest like that.

Its introduction inaugurated a new boom in the use of the telephone.

Benton left to make his delivery to the mill company, the great boom of logs gliding slowly along in the wake of a tug, the Chickamin in attendance.

I do not like these so-called booms, however, and so I left to begin somewhere else.

As he rushed downstairs two steps at a time, he could hear along the street the mighty howlings, to and fro, of the Hooligan paper-sellers making a Boom.

Every one seemed cheerful and in high spirits, and it needed the dull boom of the guns around Sebastopol to recall the fact that the work upon which they were engaged was one of grim earnest.

56 Verbs to Use for the Word  boom