Example sentences for: tompkins

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

  • In Pendleton Tompkins's letter about vanity licence plates [XXII,1], he answers the dental question FUNEDK? with the words, No, I have no decay.

  • To Tompkins, these weren't just surface effects, but "the essential elements of de Kooning's greatness."

  • Writing recently in The New Yorker , Calvin Tompkins complained that the 1980s paintings lacked the "messy viscous slathers of pigment, the turbulence and turmoil, ...

  • The throngs of black-clad teen-agers who flock to the East Village in the summertime to use drugs, panhandle, sleep in abandoned buildings, and drink malt liquor in Tompkins Square Park--it's sort of like camp--have yet to arrive.

  • Fish's wife, Jane Tompkins, who has made her disenchantment with conventional teaching and scholarship the subject of both her courses and her writing, will teach one course a year in the school of education.


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