Sentence examples for tomfool from inspiring English sources

"The day these tomfool notions stop dropping from your mouth.

Prism claims Grippes wasted his talent writing tomfool letters; Grippes says Prism's talent is to no purpose and that he symbolizes the state of English letters since the 1950s.

The husband makes placards with quotations from Carlyle, a writer Matthew Arnold described as "part man of genius, part fanatic and part tomfool," scattering them around on the furniture.

Splice Tony Law with Doctor Brown and you'd get something resembling this audience-bothering tomfool, the highlight of whose energetic set involves an unusual accompaniment to the Buddy Holly song Everyday.

In the few seconds it takes to whoosh through one of these stainless steel and plastic tubes and re-emerge at the bottom of the Turbine Hall, you have been infantilised into a rumpled, red-faced, giggling tomfool.

Frustrated by the many cretins and tomfools I encountered in my daily life, I devoted myself to elevating the public to a level worthy of discourse.

Together, bug-eyed, wily Zucker and lanky, tomfooling Venn flirt and moue their way through an hour of whimsical set pieces.