How to Use tome in a Sentence

tome

noun
  • The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins was the most checked-out tome.
    Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 28 Dec. 2016
  • The book, a slim 152-page tome, hasn’t been in print for years.
    Julia Shumway, oregonlive, 7 Oct. 2022
  • The shelves are stacked with unique tomes and treasures.
    Julissa James, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
  • But that was a long tome ago in 1980, when he was known as John Cougar.
    Dan Deluca, Philly.com, 7 July 2017
  • This hefty tome provides a life-size guide to 600 species of snake from around the world.
    Claire Cock-Starkey, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
  • The tome follows him through the fight against slavery.
    David Canfield, EW.com, 2 Sep. 2019
  • The tome has sold more than 6 million copies in the United States.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Mar. 2025
  • The 69-year-old explains some key takeaways from the tome.
    Mickey Rapkin, Billboard, 2 Mar. 2018
  • The book about Apple, not the Isaacson book but sort of the main tome before it.
    Recode Staff, Recode, 13 June 2018
  • One was a legal tome that spelled out terms of Britain’s divorce from the bloc.
    Laurence Norman, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2018
  • The Three Bibles wasn’t the place to purchase pricey scholarly tomes.
    James Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Most of the tomes featured aim to immerse you in the world of timekeeping.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The tome details the night of ex-wife Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman's murders.
    Michael O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2018
  • There have been tomes written in honor of the quest to embrace all things Parisian.
    Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 2 Dec. 2014
  • The result is a 688-page tome that promises to be the most complete profile of Musk yet.
    Shannon Carlin, Time, 23 Aug. 2023
  • This is a tome for all of us who’ve become Fat + Flour disciples over the years.
    Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Reviewing the book for The Times, the humorist Joe Queenan mocked the need for a toothpick tome that weighed in at more than 400 pages.
    Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 22 June 2023
  • More details are also likely to emerge in the days to come, as reporters and the public parse the tome.
    Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2020
  • One such night, a colorful tome called to me from a bargain bin.
    Julia Tausch, Bon Appetit, 13 June 2018
  • Even in the internet age, Japan still prints phone-book sized tomes of train timetables.
    Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2017
  • The result is a 464-page tome that is the ultimate behind-the-scenes account.
    Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2021
  • Wrap this tome for under the tree, bookmarked with an item on order.
    Rebecca Malinsky, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2021
  • And then these tomes would arrive, these ancient books.
    Kathryn Shattuck, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Cohen's tome is not the only book about Trump out Tuesday.
    David Jackson, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2020
  • The tomes sit on bookshelves that go from floor to ceiling, some scattered on tables and chairs.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2019
  • This doesn’t seem to be the year for advice books, scholarly tomes or rigor of any sort.
    Judy Knotts, Austin American-Statesman, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The magical tome that Wanda is reading in the post-credits scene is kind of a big deal.
    Leah Marilla Thomas, refinery29.com, 5 Mar. 2021
  • At a bookstore, Kuras spotted a tome about Miller, and, taken by Winslet’s likeness to her, sent the actor the book.
    Diane Garrett, Variety, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The tome, co-written with Sophia Paulmier, chronicles his 10 years as editor-in-chief of the magazine.
    Richard Johnson, New York Daily News, 18 May 2025
  • These are novel long tomes that have existed on the internet for years and impacted entire seasons of writing.
    Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 7 May 2025

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