boom!

They were fixing to shoot the missiles from Cuba clean across the Florida Straits, and then the Americans would shoot missiles back, and pretty soon, boom! mushroom cloud, radioactive fallout, everything in the incandescent oranges and scarlets and magentas of one of those postcards you can buy at every roadside citrus stand: “Florida Sunset.”

Dream State Diane Roberts 2008

She had heard a “boom!” and smelled an awful smell she could not identify.

Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder Ann Rule 2008

The radio went on: Splish splash, I was taking a bath, bap bap bap pa boom! came blaring out.

Dark Dude Oscar Hijuelos 2008

It ratcheted louder and louder until it exploded in a nearby boom! that rocked the very walls pressing on us.

Firehorse Diane Lee Wilson 2006

Put enough matter in contact with antimatter and boom! there goes the planet.

I’m Working on That William Shatner 2002

That makes the pigs particularly susceptible to baiting, a key tactic in concentrating the animals and patterning their movements before lowering the literal "boom!" on them or, as Higginbotham recommends, closing the trap door.

chron.com Chronicle 2011

The chemistry experiment went boom! when the Capitals lost in the first round.

SI.com 2011

I couldn’t consciously tell you the next word is “Wilhelmina” but boom! there’s “Wilhelmina” right on cue.

Last Words George Carlin 2009