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How to use tommy in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun, verb

Tommy means a British infantryman, especially one from World War I. Ellipsis of Tommy Atkins. Example: “Tommy the Tyke is the mascot of Barnsley FC.”

Examples of tommy by meaning

nounTommyrot; nonsense.

  • 'Don't talk tommy, Guy!' she exclaimed half wrathfully.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries

More sentences with tommy

  • Tommy the Tyke is the mascot of Barnsley FC.From the entry mascot
  • A set of two tommy bars is the standard tooling for the spindle nose threads of some minilathes and minimills.From the entry tommy bar
  • Tommy was just an awful man for the paper - couldn't get enough of the stuff!2022, Lisa McGee, Derry Girls, season 3, episode 7. From the entry awful
  • TOMMY (played by Joseph Sikora): I was just loading up my shipment, what’s up?.2019 October 7, Courtney A. Kemp, Theo Travers, Andre J. Ferguson, 21:00 from the start, in Power(Like Father, Like Son), season 6…. From the entry distro
  • Tommy wandered in, calm as you like, a full hour late, reeking of booze.2017, Jamie Bartlett, chapter 2, in Radicals, London: William Heinemann. From the entry half-cut
  • Tommy Kha’s hilarious photographic series “Stoic Man Being Kissed By Strangers” is a LOLtastic must-see.2013 October 16, “Frontlash”, in The Music, number 10, Melbourne, Vic., page 70. From the entry LOLtastic
  • Tommy decided to use a fishbone diagram that he had learned about at school.2008, Barbara A. Cleary, Sally J. Duncan, Thinking Tools for Kids: An Activity Book for Classroom Learning, rev. edition, Milwaukee, Wis.…. From the entry fishbone diagram
  • Tommy Connolly, perhaps recalling Jones's earlier argumentativeness, rung him up — too close to take.2004, Michael Coffey, 27 Men Out: Baseball's Perfect Games, page 31. From the entry ring up
  • “Tommy, hold me tight, will you honey?” he whispered in the role of the wolfess.1954, Benjamin Appel, Sweet Money Girl: A Gold Medal Original, page 64. From the entry wolfess
  • Tommy had apparently been plied with ice cream and soda pop at the police station, to loosen his tongue.2000, Michael Chabon, chapter 11, in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, New York: Random House, page 552. From the entry loosen someone's tongue
  • Tommy didn’t get a porkchop, I didn’t get a porkchop.1996, Geoffrey Douglas, The Game of Their Lives, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry porkchop
  • Tommy Parker had propped Sporting World against a waterjug.1985, Nicholas Mosely, Accident, →ISBN, page 27. From the entry sin bin
  • Tommy, who finds this out, is a little like both.1960, “[Friskey, Margaret.] Trip for Tommy. Children’s Press, 1953. $1.50.”, in Frieda M[aurie] Heller, compiler, “I Can Read it Myself!”…. From the entry stay-at-home
  • Tommy took to his heels and ran—none too soon.1922, Agatha Christie, “Chapter 17”, in The Secret Adversary. From the entry none too soon
  • Tommy Riggs and his housekeeper, Mrs.1942 August 22, “Housekeeper Wanted by Tommy Riggss”, in Harrisburg Telegraph, volume CXII, number 199, Harrisburg, Pa.. From the entry p. m.
  • Tommy remembered Uncle Johnny standing up from his chair in the snug and settling his titfer on his head, what made him look as if he were a bookie.2016, Alan Moore, “Hark! The Glad Sound!”, in Jerusalem: A Novel, New York, N.Y.; London: Liveright Publishing Corporation, →ISBN, page 330. From the entry titfer
  • Tommy Atkins will serve with pluck and valor wherever he fights hereafter, as always; but the conduct of the war is passing out of our hands.1978, Herman Wouk, War and Remembrance, Back Bay Books, published 2002, page 507. From the entry Tommy Atkins
  • Tommy helped elect Wilson, so do not be at all surprised to see our pride appointed as the first occupant of the chair Secretaress of Health, Santé and Gesundheit!1913, Chips, volume 13, page 73. From the entry secretaress

Meaning of tommy

  1. noun A British infantryman, especially one from World War I. Ellipsis of Tommy Atkins.
  2. noun Bread or breadlike foodstuff, generally a penny roll.
  3. noun The supply of food carried by workmen as their daily allowance.

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Questions about tommy in a sentence

How do you use tommy in a sentence?
Tommy is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Tommy the Tyke is the mascot of Barnsley FC.”
What is a short sentence with tommy?
“Tommy Riggs and his housekeeper, Mrs.”
What does tommy mean?
Tommy means a British infantryman, especially one from World War I. Ellipsis of Tommy Atkins.

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