Get to know Tabby better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like patterned or brindle.
Tabby in a sentence
Tabby meaning
- A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering.
- A concrete mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, this becomes as hard as rock.
- A brindled cat.
Synonyms of Tabby
Using Tabby
- The main meaning on this page is: A kind of waved silk, usually called watered silk, manufactured like taffeta, but thicker and stronger. The watering is given to it by calendering. | A concrete mixture of lime with shells, gravel, or stones, in equal proportions, with an equal proportion of water. When dry, this becomes as hard as rock. | A brindled cat.
- Useful related words include: domestic cat, house cat, felis domesticus, felis catus.
- In the example corpus, tabby often appears in combinations such as: tabby cat, orange tabby, the tabby.
Context around Tabby
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tabby
- In this selection, "tabby" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, black, gray, fat, cat, shines and plort stand out and add context to how "tabby" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 10 s tabby commented dropping and a brown tabby required emergency. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tabby" sits close to words such as abdulrazaq, adan and adolphus, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tabby
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Billy, the missing ginger and beige tabby. (7 words)
Abby the tabby shines brightly in the sun. (8 words)
Rory dressed as Tabby McTat, fromHis favourite book. (8 words)
In a follow-up tweet, Black Tabby Games explained why they've taken this stance, saying "There's tons of reactivity baked into the game: while a single playthrough will take ~3 hours, there's ~16 hours of story to find. (41 words)
What look from afar like a random trio of rocks are in fact constructions of concrete topped with tabby, a historic material in this region formed from oyster shells, sand and water. (32 words)
It stars Cailee Spaeny as Lily, the new girl in town this time around, who joins Tabby (Lovie Simone), Frankie (Gideon Adlon) and Lourdes (Zoey Luna) in a coven of teen witches. (32 words)
Should have been 4 x 10's" Tabby commented: "dropping TWO marks because there’s ‘no chemistry’ is actually insane what? (21 words)
Example sentences (20)
Abby the tabby shines brightly in the sun.
After giving the cuberries to the Gordo phosphorus slime, give the tabby plort to the statue outside the door to open the Plort door and receive a treasure pod.
In a follow-up tweet, Black Tabby Games explained why they've taken this stance, saying "There's tons of reactivity baked into the game: while a single playthrough will take ~3 hours, there's ~16 hours of story to find.
Our tabby now shares this list with the brown tree snake, kudzu, fire ants, lionfish, Burmese pythons and other nefarious organisms that are outside their native range.
She’s a beautiful gray tabby who can be shy at first but warms up quickly.
What look from afar like a random trio of rocks are in fact constructions of concrete topped with tabby, a historic material in this region formed from oyster shells, sand and water.
All this is taught to him by a fat tabby cat.
But the more exciting updates are found on the distillery’s new musically-inspired menu, developed by lead bartender Tabatha “Tabby” Klocke.
From Coach's In My Tabby campaign with Camilia Mendes.
I have a long-haired tabby cat who moults so much it’s a wonder she has any fur left.
Nemo, a one-year-old tabby, was found in Burnaby near Cariboo Road and Gaglardi Way by a Good Samaritan.
Rory dressed as Tabby McTat, fromHis favourite book.
Should have been 4 x 10's" Tabby commented: "dropping TWO marks because there’s ‘no chemistry’ is actually insane what?
Tabby and I have a lot more in common than maybe I first thought.
Tabby Refael is an award-winning writer, speaker and weekly columnist for The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles.
Also performing are some comparatively new, but nevertheless promising acts like The SyZyGy and Tabby and Sanjai.
Dobby, a brown tabby, required emergency veterinary care after breaking its jaw on Aug. 6, 2020.
It stars Cailee Spaeny as Lily, the new girl in town this time around, who joins Tabby (Lovie Simone), Frankie (Gideon Adlon) and Lourdes (Zoey Luna) in a coven of teen witches.
The 35-pound orange tabby arrived at the Wake County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in a rather regal way this week.
Billy, the missing ginger and beige tabby.
Common combinations with tabby
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: