Example sentences for: tome

How can you use “tome” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This is truly an impressive-looking tome, persuading one that it is complete and authoritative.

  • This quirky tome was compiled by a husband and wife team who used the Los Angeles Times database.

  • Reviewers call Bloom's tome "a cloak-bag of ideas, stuffed with true wisdom and false bombast" (Jonathan Bate, the Wall Street Journal ). Bloom's vigor and intelligence in his examination of Shakespeare's plays make the book a joy to read, despite the fact that he "does not quite prove his tremendous thesis" (Jodie Morse, Time )--that Shakespeare single-handedly created the modern idea of individual personality.

  • A 1,200-page scholarly tome called Israel and the Bomb .

  • Will history judge the hero of Richard Schickel's Boswellian tome as "ironic" and "postmodern"?


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