boom box

Example Sentences

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He’s going to come to set with a boom box and blast, like, Phil Collins.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026

Swift said that podcast clip, which went viral, felt almost like "he was standing outside of my apartment, holding a boom box saying, 'I want to go on a date with you'".

From BBC • Aug. 26, 2025

A Dead Kennedys song plays on a radio boom box, as a bell rings a brief warning each time a cylinder turns.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2024

I was tying my Nikes extra tight on the basketball court, when Duncan planted has boom box at the end of the bench.

From Salon • May 14, 2023

And then one of Gus’s brothers-in-law brought up a boom box and they played this song Gus had picked out—a sad and quiet song by The Hectic Glow called “The New Partner.”

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green