Example sentences for: tommy

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

  • Gore did not seek a higher student office, perhaps because of the ribbing he took from friends, like suitemate Tommy Lee Jones, who declared that student government was "high school."

  • As a student, Bob Bennett was an apprentice to Thomas Corcoran (a k a Tommy the Cork), a legal adviser to FDR who became the prototype of the Washington lawyer as fixer.

  • Even Jackie (Tommy Bone), Dunph's wheelchair-bound brother ("He had a freak accident at touch football and fell off a roof," explains Dunph, in a voice-over), gets to be in on the jokes instead of the object of them: In one scene, he feigns extreme cerebral palsy so that he and his brother can have great seats at a football game.

  • The RPH isn't bothered by the fact that he's been routed before (Alexander, Alan Keyes, Pete Wilson, Pat Buchanan, Steve Forbes, Jack Kemp); that he's the most hated man in politics (Newt Gingrich); that he's a national joke (Dan Quayle); that hardly anyone outside his home state has heard of him (John Ashcroft, Bob Smith, George Pataki, Tom Ridge, John Kasich, Tommy Thompson); that most voters will confuse him with an S&L crook (Frank Keating, the governor of Oklahoma--he's never heard of you, either); or that he might not get elected if he were the next-to-last American alive (Gary Bauer).

  • To a cheesy fashion spread featuring Mick Jagger's daughter, the NYT Magazine appends a tacky postscript: a hymn to the Rolling Stones' fashion sense from designer Tommy Hilfiger, who just happens to be the sponsor of the band's current tour.


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