At the market, the greengrocer handed me a ripe tom and smiled.

He admired the glittering tom around her neck.

People whispered that he would tom for the landowner, always flattering and yielding to white authority.

To stabilize the ship in heavy seas, the crew decided to tom a pocket beneath the hatch cover and pack it with iron ballast.

Tom promised to bring the cake to the party on Saturday.

Tom swung in the old church tower, its sonorous peals marking the hours for the quiet village.

Every evening, the toms gather behind the bakery, waiting for scraps.

They tommed the engine after the repair.

Despite the warnings, he kept tomming at every opportunity, trying to get a laugh.

The tom-tom drummers marched down the avenue, their rhythms echoing through the city.