How to Use Tom Collins in a Sentence

Tom Collins

noun
  • For years the French 75 was served on the rocks in a tall glass, essentially a Tom Collins with the soda water swapped for sparkling wine.
    Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 27 Dec. 2025
  • For years the French 75 was served on the rocks in a tall glass, essentially a Tom Collins with the soda water swapped for sparkling wine.
    Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Tom Collins, president of Luke Oil, gave a lengthy presentation Monday to assuage concerns.
    Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Andre Heimos and Allen Lucky Weaver bring playfulness to the love story of Tom Collins and Angel Schunard.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2026
  • The Sloe Gin Fizz is like a cross between a Tom Collins, a French 75, and an Aperol Spritz—bright and bubbly like a Collins and elegant like a French 75, but with the tart, fruity depth of sloe berries instead of botanical gin or bitter liqueur.
    Aly Walansky, Southern Living, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The labor camp, already on the National Register of Historic Places, was run by Tom Collins, to whom Steinbeck dedicated his 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Grapes of Wrath.
    Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2026

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