Examples of tome in a Sentence

Noun a long tome on European history picked up a thick tome on the Roman Empire at a used book store

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun This week, the State Board of Education is expected to approve the final draft, an 894-page tome whose own history illustrates the challenges of crafting an ethnic studies curriculum at a time of racial reckoning and national division. — Jocelyn Gecker, The Christian Science Monitor, "History, herstory, hxrstory: Whose stories will be told in CA?," 16 Mar. 2021 The massive tome chronicling the life of an American literary giant had received several glowing reviews in the lead-up to its April 6 launch date and landed on the New York Times Bestsellers List after two weeks of sales. — Washington Post, "Publisher pauses promotion of Blake Bailey’s best-selling Philip Roth biography over sexual assault claims," 22 Apr. 2021 Writers Richard Bienstock and Tom Beaujour conducted more than 200 new interviews for the tome. — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, "The new bible of ‘80s glam-metal and hard-rock," 7 Apr. 2021 But there is no more ardent a disciple of the tome than Mejdal, a former biomathematician at NASA who earned master’s degrees in both cognitive psychology and operations research. — New York Times, "This Book Is Not About Baseball. But Baseball Teams Swear by It.," 24 Feb. 2021 The 144-page tome is accompanied by a 20-track CD featuring the artists highlighted in the book. — Billboard, "From History to Biographies, Here Are the Best Books About Jazz," 6 Apr. 2021 To celebrate the model’s 90th anniversary this year, watch expert and Robb Report contributor Nicholas Foulkes dived into the Reverso’s history to produce a sprawling tome, published by Assouline, dedicated to its timeless appeal. — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, "Horological Historian Nick Foulkes Literally Wrote the Book on the Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso," 3 Apr. 2021 For his latest tome, his gaze shifts to Queen Elizabeth, her younger sister Princess Margaret, and their sometimes-fraught relationship in Elizabeth and Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters, out March 30. — Rachel Burchfield, Vogue, "Royal Sibling Relationships Have Always Been Complicated," 29 Mar. 2021 The magical tome that Wanda is reading in the post-credits scene is kind of a big deal. — Leah Marilla Thomas, refinery29.com, "WandaVision’s Second Post-Credits Scene — & Its Possible Ties To Doctor Strange — Explained," 5 Mar. 2021

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History and Etymology for tome

Noun

Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin tomus, from Greek tomos section, roll of papyrus, tome, from temnein to cut; akin to Middle Irish tamnaid he lops, Polish ciąć to cut, and perhaps to Latin tondēre to shear

Noun combining form

Greek tomos

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