Sentence examples for boom sat from inspiring English sources

The yellow tower crane — a four-sided steel lattice tower topped by a cab and swinging arm, or boom — sat on Myrtle Avenue, between Flatbush Avenue and Prince Street.

Filmed in Detroit, timeworn buildings once filled with promise now rot away on the road side, while another, older ghost-town, built during another boom, sits at the bottom of a nearby reservoir.The local bully (named Bully and played by Doctor Who's Matt Smith, pictured above), is a tyrant in a gold-sequined jacket who cuts the heads off rats and the lips off locals just for the hell of it.

A boom box sat on a rack against a wall, covered in dust.

Boom! "They sat me down on the bench.

One of the world's biggest cranes, with a 500-foot boom, will sit between the two big foundation holes, pluck the already-built sections up and drop them into place.

You spoke of the scandalous encounter as if it was something out of a Mills and Booms novel; I sat there flabbergasted.

Laurel Touby sold Mediabistro.com recently for $23m, and said the number of new media jobs rivals the height of the dot com boom: "Most people sit there and bemoan the sorry state of traditional media companies and notice how positions are being cut.

In their place were seasoned collectors who sat out the boom years and were now returning for what seemed like bargain prices.

Nearby, a huge theatre, the construction of which started during Spain's boom days before the 2007 crash, sat unfinished.

If Citigroup had sat out the credit boom while its rivals made huge profits, Prince would probably have been out of a job earlier.

Buffett, as has been widely noted, sat out the tech boom and suffered some mockery as a result.