Example sentences for: tomes

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

  • As any reader of VERBATIM knows, there are many books on the market designed to do exactly this; however, one can rarely get through more than the first few chapters of such tomes.

  • Some critics continue to deride his mammoth tomes as hopelessly pedestrian, with "the formulaic plots and the formulaic prose and the formulaic leap to the top of the best-seller list" (the New York Times ). Most critics grudgingly praise Michener's prolificacy, breezy prose, and extensive research, while gleefully bashing the snobbery of his highbrow bashers.

  • However, let it become cluttered with etymologies, essays, and vocabulary that, I think, belong in more encyclopedic tomes and published at less frequent intervals, and the result is a cumbersome volume that I, for one, would not be inclined to use as the handy reference a college dictionary implies.

  • The second of two installments in the presidential scholar's biography of the 36 th president is deemed "sound and judicious," and a corrective to Robert Caro's polemical anti-Johnson tomes (Sean Wilentz, the New York Times Book Review ). Critics seize on the lurid details, from LBJ's exposing himself to reporters to his behind-the-scenes machinations during the 1968 presidential campaign.

  • The New Yorker has fought back with special issues--massive tomes about race or Hollywood or the future.


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