Below you will find example sentences with "tom swift". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Tom Swift in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: tom
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 9
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 24.9 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 9 start, 8 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "tom swift" has 2 words and usually appears near the start in these examples. The average sentence has 24.9 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 1929 s tom swift and his, a tom swift radio series, series, first and inventor stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with taylor swift, tom brady, tom hanks, tom brady, tom hanks and tom cruise, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with tom swift
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One source "Tom Swift, Master Inventor" (1956). (7 words)
The Tom Swift, Jr., series ended in 1971. (8 words)
A Tom Swift radio series was proposed in 1946. (9 words)
Appleton II (1965), 4. In this series, presented as an extension and continuation of the first, the Tom Swift of the original series is now the CEO of Swift Enterprises, a four-mile-square enclosed facility where inventions are conceived and manufactured. (42 words)
Tom is also at times unsure of himself, asking his elders for help; as Von der Osten puts it, "the early Tom Swift is more dependent on his father and other adults at first and is much more hesitant in his actions. (42 words)
The house on wheels that Tom invents for 1929's Tom Swift and His House on Wheels pre-dated the first house trailer by a year, but post-dates the widespread use of Romany caravans for living by about a century. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
Fifth series (2006–2007) The fifth series, "Tom Swift, Young Inventor", returns Tom Swift to Shopton, New York, with Tom as the son of Tom Swift and Mary Nestor, the names of characters of the original Tom Swift series.
Tom is called the son of "the great Tom Swift" Appleton (1981), 38. and said to be "already an important and active contributor to the family business, the giant multimillion-dollar scientific-industrial complex known as Swift Enterprises".
Appleton II (1965), 4. In this series, presented as an extension and continuation of the first, the Tom Swift of the original series is now the CEO of Swift Enterprises, a four-mile-square enclosed facility where inventions are conceived and manufactured.
Lewis's first published book was Hike and the Aeroplane, a Tom Swift -style potboiler that appeared in 1912 under the pseudonym Tom Graham.
Like the Tom Swift, Jr. series, the series portrays Tom as a scientist as well as an inventor whose inventions depend on a knowledge of theory.
The house on wheels that Tom invents for 1929's Tom Swift and His House on Wheels pre-dated the first house trailer by a year, but post-dates the widespread use of Romany caravans for living by about a century.
Tom is also at times unsure of himself, asking his elders for help; as Von der Osten puts it, "the early Tom Swift is more dependent on his father and other adults at first and is much more hesitant in his actions.
Additionally, is introducing literary inventor Tom Swift into the Drew-niverse, eyeing a potential spinoff for the reinvented character — now a Black, gay billionaire.
A Tom Swift radio series was proposed in 1946.
Electrically powered vehicles of every sort featured large in adventure stories such as those of Jules Verne and the Tom Swift books.
Film and television As early as 1914, Edward Stratemeyer proposed making a Tom Swift movie, but no such movie was made.
Glen A. Larson wrote an unproduced television pilot show entitled "TS, I Love You: The Further Adventures of Tom Swift" in 1977, as well.
In 1954, Harriet Adams created the Tom Swift, Jr. series, which was published using the pseudonym "Victor Appleton II" as author.
In 2007, digital studio Worldwide Biggies acquired movie rights to Tom Swift.
One source "Tom Swift, Master Inventor" (1956).
Scripts were also written for a proposed television series involving both Tom Swift Jr. and his father, the hero of the original book series.
Series main main The longest-running series of books to feature Tom Swift is the first, which consists of forty volumes.
The Syndicate's authors created the Tom Swift stories by first preparing an outline with the plot elements, followed by drafting and editing the detailed manuscript.
The Tom Swift, Jr., series ended in 1971.
The Tom Swift of this third series is less of an inventor than his predecessors, and his inventions are rarely the main feature of the plot.