How to Use boomer in a Sentence

boomer

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  • Many boomers purchased homes at the height of their careers in the 1990s.
    — Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Any boomer will tell you that no one wants to work these days.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Why is Portland so low, in the 47th spot, on the baby boomer list?
    — oregonlive, 25 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Replying to @Jaime Suzanne cue all the boomers commenting ‘this is unp ...
    — Chandra Steele, PCMAG, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Okay, that was predictably polite and short on drama (God bless boomers).
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The poll found as much, with boomers the most likely to call shorts never acceptable, at 57%.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 24 July 2023
  • Glassdoor predicts that 2024 will be the first year that Gen Z outnumbers boomers in the workforce.
    — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Many helped elect a Black president, himself a younger boomer promising hope and change.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2021
  • Lloyd, the boomer, is well-meaning, kind, liberal, and blinkered.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Young, in his statement, also called on his boomer generation to take the lead in the fight against climate change.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Bran’s mom, in classic West Coast boomer fashion, runs off to become a Buddhist nun.
    — New York Times, 17 May 2022
  • Perhaps that’s why the same survey found that almost half of boomers expect to work past age 70 or don’t plan to retire at all.
    — Robyn A. Friedman, Sun Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Bill Clinton was the first baby boomer to serve as president.
    — CNN, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Gen Xers, in their 40s and 50s, have actually done somewhat better than the boomers at their age.
    — Marshall Ingwerson, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Linda is a baby boomer who has spent her entire career working in the HR field.
    — Robin Ryan, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The point is to get you and your kids (or, for aging boomers, your dogs) to and from every destination with the least amount of hassle and the most comfort.
    — Mike Austin, Car and Driver, 15 Apr. 2023

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