How to Use tome in a Sentence

tome

noun
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • Most of the tomes featured aim to immerse you in the world of timekeeping.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The result is a 688-page tome that promises to be the most complete profile of Musk yet.
    Shannon Carlin, Time, 23 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 new tome is a visual remembrance of the 15 years after Mr. Ford left Gucci Group.
    Ashley Simpson, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Nov. 2021
  • Part of the tome of information left behind for the buyer explained how to mow the lawn — the neighbor’s lawn, that is.
    Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 19 May 2024
  • Yet the tome did little or nothing to stop climbers from paying tens of thousands of dollars to give it a try.
    Michael Kodas, The Denver Post, 7 June 2019
  • Colleen Hoover and Stephen King have sold millions of books, but neither has ever used one of their tomes as a weapon in a pro wrestling match.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The publication is an image first tome with only the title of the book on the cover.
    Hikmat Mohammed, WWD, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The couple replaced the original thin shelves with one-and-a-half-inch versions that wouldn’t bow under the weight of their tomes.
    Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, House Beautiful, 30 Dec. 2019
  • The tome, published in 1982, featured both fiction and non-fiction.
    Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Bound by award-winning artist Kate Holland, the stylish tome features a black goatskin cover that shows a 1950s map of the Big Apple.
    Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2024
  • This week the commercial real estate group unveiled the third version of the tome.
    Steve Brown, Dallas News, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Plenty of reporters have tried to write the official tome on crypto—but none of them are Bloomberg’s Matt Levine.
    Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The 800-page tome has become something of a sacred text for people in the AI industry.
    WIRED, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Couture shoots, fittings and magazine covers are among the 140-plus images and film stills in the tome.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Laying on the front counter of My Dad's Barber Shop is a rustic tome, weathered from years of use and thick with generations of clients.
    Noe Padilla, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Sep. 2024

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