Example sentences for: tome

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

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

  • 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.

  • But, by all reports, he was depressed about the prospects for a large tome about American class conflict.

  • In a 660-page tome, the MIT psycholinguist popularizes a controversial theory of evolutionary psychology: that the brain is like a computer program that has been shaped by natural selection.

  • He again browsed the books visually and pulled a tome from the shelf.


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