How to Use tom in a Sentence

tom

noun
Definition of tomnext
  • Andrew moves to the toms, then back to the snare, then back.
    — SI.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Hunters should expect to encounter lots of jakes and some old toms in strongholds.
    — Brian Lovett, Outdoor Life, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Go crazy and order it with coconut milk and cream (tom yum gung nam kohn).
    — Katherine Lagrave, CNT, 19 Sep. 2017
  • Meanwhile, tom, this is one week ahead of Jim Comey's book that's coming out.
    — Fox News, 9 Apr. 2018
  • As dawn pinks the sky, the tom shakes himself awake and looses the first of a series of branch-rattling gobbles.
    — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2018
  • One side of the call shows a tom gobbling in a pasture with a barn, while the other depicts the three gobblers in the NWTF logo.
    — Colin Moore, Outdoor Life, 19 Feb. 2020
  • All kinds of broths work, too, from a simple chicken stock to spicy Thai-style coconut-rich tom ka broth.
    — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Drummer Nir Z flicked a shaker in the background of the intro, but never hit the toms until verse two.
    — Tom Roland, Billboard, 28 Feb. 2018
  • The food — especially the tom yum soup with shrimp and the mango sticky rice — did not disappoint, though the breeze cooled the entrees.
    — New York Times, 10 Apr. 2018
  • The menu includes tom kha, fish cakes, satay, Panang curry and pineapple fried rice.
    — Hadley Tomicki, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2019
  • In 1959 a curly-haired feral tom kitten founded the Devon rex breed, which has a petite face and large ears.
    — Liz Langley, National Geographic, 3 Apr. 2019
  • Jumbo turkey legs, which are harvested from the toms and can weigh upwards of 3 pounds each, have a lot going for them.
    — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Particularly the restaurant Bua Siam, which a Thai pal insisted serves the best tom yum soup in the city.
    — Rico Gagliano, Los Angeles Magazine, 3 May 2018
  • Mam tom definitely brings funk to the fresh greens but doesn’t overpower them.
    — Soleil Ho, latimes.com, 20 June 2019
  • However, the soup to order here is the tom kha noodle soup ($8.95), a large bowl of near-monochromatic goodness.
    — Anna Caplan, star-telegram, 1 May 2018
  • The Times of San Diego reported that two had tom be airlifted to hospitals.
    — Elizabeth Zwirz, Fox News, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Holding it down from behind an austere kit, tom and snare were her main weapons of choice, her kick used primarily for thump and bump.
    — Kevin Williams, chicagotribune.com, 21 July 2019
  • Performing shirtless and lit from below by garish stage lighting, Schrader would pound on a floor tom and sing in a nasal howl.
    — Max Savage Levenson, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2018
  • During the first weeks of this season, hunters reported very little gobbling on roosts and almost no gobbling once toms hit the ground in the morning.
    — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2018
  • For longtime regular Jeremy Jones, the spicy basil and tom kha gai — a hot and sour soup with chicken and herbs in a light coconut milk broth — have been his go-to favorites for years.
    — Georgann Yara, azcentral, 13 June 2019
  • The Thai side of the menu veers away from the blunt instrument of tradition with an engaging consommé-style shrimp tom yum soup and a balanced and good sweet-and-sour pad thai.
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 24 May 2018
  • Here’s another fun fact: Male turkeys, called toms, have bald, featherless heads with all sorts of dangling skin flaps and knobs known as the snood, the wattle and caruncles.
    — Jason Bittel, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2019
  • There are few things more thrilling than having a wild adult tom turkey thunder a gobble in reply to your imitation of a hen.
    — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 3 May 2018
  • Unfurled, the crepe is the size of a floor-tom drum-head, and its texture nanotechnology-slender-exquisite.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 5 Feb. 2020
  • After mating season is over, the male turkeys, called toms, form bachelor groups and don’t have anything to do with their offspring, said Petersen.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The rabble-rousing of the youth movement can silence older toms, who quietly watch and listen as their younger counterparts make fools of themselves.
    — Matt Wyatt, ExpressNews.com, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Chef Nick Erven veganizes flavors from all over the globe, from kale cavatelli pasta in a toothsome tom yum gravy to a tamale of potato and hearts of palm resting in a punchy beet mole.
    — Lauren Bans, Bon Appetit, 13 Feb. 2017
  • Chef Nick Erven veganizes flavors from all over the globe, from kale cavatelli pasta in a toothsome tom yum gravy to a tamale of potato and hearts of palm resting in a punchy beet mole.
    — Lauren Bans, Bon Appetit, 13 Feb. 2017
  • On the flip side, fewer young hens could result in big toms having fewer distractions keeping them from rushing into a good hunter’s shooting zone.
    — Ralph Winingham, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Its texture recalls Vietnamese chao tom, shrimp paste molded around sugar cane skewers.
    — Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2019

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