NOUN
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an explosive sound caused by the shock wave of an airplane traveling faster than the speed of sound
a sonic boom follows an aircraft as a wake follows a ship
How To Use sonic boom In A Sentence
- The sight of the fireball was followed by a sonic boom as the meteorite exploded into thousands of pieces over Barwell near Leicester. Times, Sunday Times
- There is usually a sonic boom when an aircraft breaks the sound barrier.
- We heard the sonic boom of a jet overhead.
- The frequency of published reports has actually declined since 1960 because people tend to dismiss loud explosions as merely military sonic booms.
- The new aircraft creates a sonic boom.
- But experts said the phenomenon was probably a sonic boom triggered by the space rock plunging through the atmosphere. The Sun
- Shortly afterward, an F/A-18, a modern Navy jet fighter, flew low at one end of the runway, punched its afterburners and treated the crowd to a thunderous sonic boom as it passed. In the Navy, 100 Years of Altitude
- The new aircraft creates a sonic boom.
- Mysterious white beams stream down into the cold desert from saucer-shaped craft. Sonic booms rumble in the valleys at all hours.
- The windowpanes rattled, and the girls could feel the subsonic boom of a bomb exploding.
