tome
IPA: tˈoʊm
noun
- One in a series of volumes.
- A large or scholarly book.
- A surname.
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Examples of "tome" in Sentences
- Victor pulled the black tome from the clawlike grip of the dead man.
- Looks like the Palin tome has a new title, "Going Rogue, an American LIE".
- The invaluable 362-page tome is now available wherever books are sold (check out pp 73-75).
- Sometimes it's a nice break from the Martin tome, and I can read a short story in two breaks.
- It turns out that the tome is incomplete however, and Brendan sets off on an adventure to finish it.
- This tome is unique in that it covers seven decades, from Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House in 1920 all the way to Frank
- The title of his tome translates as "Revolutionary Islam," and parts of it read like fan mail to those Muslim heroes who replaced Marx and Lenin on the Jackal's hit parade.
- Highlights here include "A Sort of Loving" (where "rapping about dope" becomes a gateway to more insightful conversation), "I Hate You, Silas Marner" (which uses the title tome as a contrast with Joseph Heller's counterculture war hit), and "The Valedictorian" (an attempt to reconfigure recent student uprisings and nonconformity into the half hour TV setting).
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