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 2004 non-fiction tome was written by Bruce Schoenfeld.
  — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 13 May 2025
• That arduous tome was stuffed to the brim with interpersonal conflict as the characters trudged through the woods, leaving the reader wondering if the end was truly in sight.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 27 May 2025