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Six example sentences with tome, each labelled with its topic.
The library's oldest tome takes two hands to lift and carries marginal notes from four centuries of readers.
History
Kant's dense tome sat on the reading list for a decade before anyone admitted the seminar never reached chapter three.
Philosophy
She hauled the annotated tome across campus daily, and the strap wore a permanent groove into her shoulder.
Literature
The firm's library holds a leather-bound tome on shipping law that every new associate is told to read and none has finished.
Law
The French culinary tome lists eleven ways to poach an egg, and the chef swears by the seventh.
Cooking
Smith's famous tome runs to nearly a thousand pages, though most students meet only the passage about the pin factory.
Economics
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