How to Use tom in a Sentence

tom

noun

• Then west of us two more toms made the hills ring.
  — Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2026
• Most of the time public land toms will be sneaky and elusive.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 16 Apr. 2026
• The two toms turned back, gobbling every few steps.
  — Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2026
• Hunters should expect to encounter lots of jakes and some old toms in strongholds.
  — Brian Lovett, Outdoor Life, 3 Feb. 2020
• Go crazy and order it with coconut milk and cream (tom yum gung nam kohn).
  — Katherine Lagrave, CNT, 19 Sep. 2017
• The gobbling box will often arouse an old tom that nothing else can stir.
  — Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2026
• Toms, Lindsay says, brushed off her concerns.
  — Sean Patrick Cooper, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2025
• Sometimes a small chink in your camouflage betrays you to a wary tom.
  — Bruce Brady, Outdoor Life, 8 Apr. 2026
• Toms gobble most just after first light, in an effort to attract hens.
  — Bruce Brady, Outdoor Life, 8 Apr. 2026
• So if a tom gobbles at one or two of your calls and then goes quiet, don’t be discouraged.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 16 Apr. 2026
• Meanwhile, tom, this is one week ahead of Jim Comey's book that's coming out.
  — Fox News, 9 Apr. 2018
• Mam tom definitely brings funk to the fresh greens but doesn’t overpower them.
  — Soleil Ho, latimes.com, 20 June 2019
• All kinds of broths work, too, from a simple chicken stock to spicy Thai-style coconut-rich tom ka broth.
  — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• As dawn pinks the sky, the tom shakes himself awake and looses the first of a series of branch-rattling gobbles.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2018
• Holding it down from behind an austere kit, tom and snare were her main weapons of choice, her kick used primarily for thump and bump.
  — Kevin Williams, chicagotribune.com, 21 July 2019
• Jumbo turkey legs, which are harvested from the toms and can weigh upwards of 3 pounds each, have a lot going for them.
  — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Apr. 2018
• Some toms, like some men, want talkative mates while others prefer as little talk as possible.
  — Bruce Brady, Outdoor Life, 8 Apr. 2026
• There are few things more thrilling than having a wild adult tom turkey thunder a gobble in reply to your imitation of a hen.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 3 May 2018
• The food — especially the tom yum soup with shrimp and the mango sticky rice — did not disappoint, though the breeze cooled the entrees.
  — New York Times, 10 Apr. 2018
• Its texture recalls Vietnamese chao tom, shrimp paste molded around sugar cane skewers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2019
• The recordings revealed that toms would often gobble at sounds that fell within a certain frequency.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 11 Mar. 2026
• Performing shirtless and lit from below by garish stage lighting, Schrader would pound on a floor tom and sing in a nasal howl.
  — Max Savage Levenson, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2018
• During the first weeks of this season, hunters reported very little gobbling on roosts and almost no gobbling once toms hit the ground in the morning.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2018
• Later in the season another friend of mine killed a big tom that previously had been severely wounded.
  — Bruce Brady, Outdoor Life, 8 Apr. 2026
• Unfurled, the crepe is the size of a floor-tom drum-head, and its texture nanotechnology-slender-exquisite.
  — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 5 Feb. 2020
• The Times of San Diego reported that two had tom be airlifted to hospitals.
  — Elizabeth Zwirz, Fox News, 9 Apr. 2018
• In 1959 a curly-haired feral tom kitten founded the Devon rex breed, which has a petite face and large ears.
  — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 3 Apr. 2019
• Avoid the big, popular fields everyone else is hunting and focus on smaller, less obvious openings where toms might want to strut.
  — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 16 Apr. 2026
• On the flip side, fewer young hens could result in big toms having fewer distractions keeping them from rushing into a good hunter’s shooting zone.
  — Ralph Winingham, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Mar. 2018
• Particularly the restaurant Bua Siam, which a Thai pal insisted serves the best tom yum soup in the city.
  — Rico Gagliano, Los Angeles Magazine, 3 May 2018