How to Use tom in a Sentence

tom

noun

• Andrew moves to the toms, then back to the snare, then back.
  — SI.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Meanwhile, tom, this is one week ahead of Jim Comey's book that's coming out.
  — Fox News, 9 Apr. 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
• One side of the call shows a tom gobbling in a pasture with a barn, while the other depicts the three gobblers in the NWTF logo.
  — Colin Moore, Outdoor Life, 19 Feb. 2020
• All kinds of broths work, too, from a simple chicken stock to spicy Thai-style coconut-rich tom ka broth.
  — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• Drummer Nir Z flicked a shaker in the background of the intro, but never hit the toms until verse two.
  — Tom Roland, Billboard, 28 Feb. 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
• The menu includes tom kha, fish cakes, satay, Panang curry and pineapple fried rice.
  — Hadley Tomicki, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Mam tom definitely brings funk to the fresh greens but doesn’t overpower them.
  — Soleil Ho, latimes.com, 20 June 2019
• However, the soup to order here is the tom kha noodle soup ($8.95), a large bowl of near-monochromatic goodness.
  — Anna Caplan, star-telegram, 1 May 2018
• The Times of San Diego reported that two had tom be airlifted to hospitals.
  — Elizabeth Zwirz, Fox News, 9 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
• 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
• For longtime regular Jeremy Jones, the spicy basil and tom kha gai — a hot and sour soup with chicken and herbs in a light coconut milk broth — have been his go-to favorites for years.
  — Georgann Yara, azcentral, 13 June 2019
• The Thai side of the menu veers away from the blunt instrument of tradition with an engaging consommé-style shrimp tom yum soup and a balanced and good sweet-and-sour pad thai.
  — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 24 May 2018
• Here’s another fun fact: Male turkeys, called toms, have bald, featherless heads with all sorts of dangling skin flaps and knobs known as the snood, the wattle and caruncles.
  — Jason Bittel, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2019
• 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
• Unfurled, the crepe is the size of a floor-tom drum-head, and its texture nanotechnology-slender-exquisite.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 5 Feb. 2020
• After mating season is over, the male turkeys, called toms, form bachelor groups and don’t have anything to do with their offspring, said Petersen.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2019
• The rabble-rousing of the youth movement can silence older toms, who quietly watch and listen as their younger counterparts make fools of themselves.
  — Matt Wyatt, ExpressNews.com, 12 Mar. 2020
• Chef Nick Erven veganizes flavors from all over the globe, from kale cavatelli pasta in a toothsome tom yum gravy to a tamale of potato and hearts of palm resting in a punchy beet mole.
  — Lauren Bans, Bon Appetit, 13 Feb. 2017
• Chef Nick Erven veganizes flavors from all over the globe, from kale cavatelli pasta in a toothsome tom yum gravy to a tamale of potato and hearts of palm resting in a punchy beet mole.
  — Lauren Bans, Bon Appetit, 13 Feb. 2017
• 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
• Its texture recalls Vietnamese chao tom, shrimp paste molded around sugar cane skewers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024