Sentence examples for behind a boom from inspiring English sources

"I don't know, something about only being allowed to swim behind a boom just does not appeal to me," said Ms. Desmond, 60, a tile designer.

Slightly annoyed when he saw his ball sitting down in the rough behind a boom microphone, Day pulled the microphone from its moorings and tossed it aside so he could hit his shot.

Mr. Sharon was the Israeli housing minister and the driving force behind a boom in settlement construction in 1992 when Secretary of State James A. Baker III insisted that United States loan guarantees would not be forthcoming unless the building came to an end.

Both suggest the sort of stability and values that were left behind in a boom characterized by overly complex derivatives and a twisted version of capitalism that saw investors generally not take up their responsibilities as owners.

In the afternoon, when my uncle went jogging, I had to run behind him, carrying a boom box playing "Eye of the Tiger".

A lightly bearded man scurried behind her with a boom mike.

Somewhere behind us a boom-box started playing dubstep.

If Martz loses a few games, his paranoia may only increase, and players could start to lose confidence in coaches who worry more about who is behind that bush with a boom microphone than about things that matter like, oh, the game plan.

She died late last year in her native Sweden at the age of eighty-seven, leaving behind a sonic boom.

Mr. Brooks refers to the "torrents" of people behind a building boom that is happening mostly in desert places.

Last week, a Guardian investigation revealed that parents on modest incomes and families from ethnic minorities were behind a massive boom in Britain's multimillion-pound tutoring market.