How to Use tabby in a Sentence

tabby

1 of 2 noun
  • Pinta is an adorable brown tabby cat.
    — Arkansas Online, 4 Jan. 2026
  • For years, the tabby showed no symptoms.
    — Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Strawberry’s donor was a one-year-old male tabby with a white chin.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Meet Fran, a tabby who has never had a stable home of her own.
    — Tj MacIas, Kansas City Star, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Jasper is a 1-year-old domestic, short-haired, male tabby cat.
    — The Republic, The Arizona Republic, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Sherlock, a sandy tabby with white paws, was sprawled on the kitchen table with his toys when Kassie opened the door.
    — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Their 16-year-old tabby cat named Ripples wasn’t taking the heat well.
    — oregonlive, 29 June 2021
  • Looking for a cuddle partner Kruger is a 2-year-old gray and white tabby.
    — The Republic, The Arizona Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The 6-month-old tabby joined Jon and Krista, who declined to share their last name, this summer.
    — Idaho Statesman, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The light-colored tabby loves being around people but is also just fine with hanging out by herself.
    — Angelica Stabile | Fox News, Fox News, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Like a tabby lingering at the threshold, his path wavered in and out of the state, never quite settling.
    — Mackensy Lunsford, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Moments later, a rusty pipe broke, sending the tabby down a gut-wrenching plunge into the darkness.
    — Thalia Beaty, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Only two of the tiny tabbies, brothers now known as Sam and Frodo, survived the day.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The actor plays a treacherous tabby in the film, which is now regarded as a modern cult classic.
    — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Squibb’s robust orange tabby, Billy Bob, wandered by and rubbed against her shin.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Dean, a long-haired tabby, spends his time people-watching from the back door, lounging atop boxes in the office, or staking out an aisle.
    — Emily Curiel, Kansas City Star, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Straight down the middle of the rescue tabby’s forehead was a thin, precisely shaven line, leaving her skin exposed.
    — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
  • My cats, Cutie and Socks — one’s a tabby and the other is a tuxedo cat — wake me up by mewing and walking on me.
    — Pamela Chelin, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The game presents the titular tabby as tender, thoughtful and wholly capable of love.
    — Luke Winkie, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2022
  • The flagged luggage was taken aside and the cat rescued before the tabby could have ended up in the pressurized cargo hold.
    — David K. Li, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2022
  • And the shorter the animal, the bigger the effect, like the domestic tabby.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Her next goal is to make Jordy, their orange tabby cat, and brand-new beagle puppy, Maxine into best friends.
    — Arika Herron, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Thomas pointed to a small ruin constructed of tabby (a type of concrete made from lime, shells, sand, and ash) that was being swallowed up by vines.
    — Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
  • At age 47, the orange tabby is still hating Mondays and loving lasagna from his home in Muncie.
    — Katie Wiseman, IndyStar, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The siamese/tabby mix was adopted by her owner, Varisiri Methachittiphan, from a shelter.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Looking for the royal treatment Burgess is a domestic, medium-haired tabby and white cat about 4 years old.
    — The Republic, The Arizona Republic, 28 July 2023
  • Her partner, Kenji, is a handsome, slightly shy tabby with gorgeous white markings.
    — The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Calico is an all-cotton fabric woven in plain, or tabby, weave and printed with simple designs in one or more colors.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026
  • An orange tabby with white paws stepped gingerly over sprawling piles of trash and debris covering what were once backyards and patios.
    — Lee O. Sanderlin, Baltimore Sun, 11 May 2022
  • Lots of people were interested in adopting the rotund tabby, but one woman beat everyone to it.
    — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024

tabby

2 of 2 adjective
  • In a viral video, the tabby cat is seen lounging atop the back of a couch.
    — Maria Morava, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
  • Fry hiked the area, talked to locals and set up a camera that caught the dog (and a tabby cat) on video.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Then, the tabby cat appears on the ground floor, out of nowhere, looking up at her, pleased that his trick worked.
    — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025
  • The pair are both calicos, although Dusty has more of a tabby look.
    — The Republic, The Arizona Republic, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Also a part of Diesel's family is tabby cat, Wasabi.
    — Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
  • The footage shows a tabby cat gazing out the window with her back to the camera while a small gray-and-white kitten sits beside her.
    — Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
  • But Li is extremely proud of his Twitter avatar – a doodle of his tabby cat.
    — Nectar Gan, CNN, 10 Dec. 2022
  • The tabby mixed cat is feeling fishy and pondering her next aquatic catch as a scary shark this Halloween.
    — Gabriele Regalbuto, Fox News, 30 Oct. 2024
  • With gentle winds from the south at 5 to 10 mph, so much for the month coming in like a lion — more like a tabby cat.
    — David Streit, Washington Post, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Loki is tabby and white while Onyx is a brown tabby, both are neutered and up-to-date on vaccinations.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 15 Mar. 2025
  • On the other side of those glass panels, a tabby cat—eyes wide and dark, ears flattened—can be seen meowing to be let back inside.
    — Marco Rubio, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Take this tabby cat, for example, who lost her favorite sleeping spot as her owner's baby bump grew bigger.
    — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025
  • The pet owner, who uses the social media tag @daxntoulouse, shared a video of her tabby cat Toulouse and her dog Dax.
    — Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • This little purr machine is Fernando, a 3-year-old tabby cat with soft stripes, a gentle heart and a shy soul.
    — Trish Stinger, Kansas City Star, 25 June 2025
  • But then, a photo of the feline exhibiting what is perhaps the world's most pitiful look went viral, and now, the tabby cat has found his new home.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Polenta is a beautiful 1-year-old domestic, short-haired, tabby girl.
    — The Arizona Republic, 8 Oct. 2021
  • Since then, the Bidens have adopted a tabby cat named Willow from Pennsylvania.
    — Emily Shiffer, Women's Health, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Viewers were able to see Linky walking toward his open crate to find his sibling, the orange tabby cat, already settled inside.
    — Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
  • The shots include a picture of the tabby cat wedged in a tight spot under the car's hood and an image of a rescuer petting the feline after freeing the animal.
    — Kirsty Hatcher, People.com, 13 Mar. 2025
  • In the living room, a tabby cat with a clipped ear lounged on a velvet couch, her front paws propping open an illustrated catalogue of military aircraft.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • The pictures, show the tabby cat in the most awkward positions, from sitting like a frog, to biting his toenails, and just being generally goofy.
    — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025
  • It’s written on a cardboard box that often contains the store’s lounging tabby cat, an internet star who has a varied wardrobe, but often wears a striped T-shirt.
    — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The clip, shared by owner Annabelle Williams (@annabelleleewilliams), shows Lou, a tabby cat, lounging in the sun and occasionally rolling over while on a leash.
    — Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Last year, the Charleroi Fire Department in Pennsylvania freed a tabby cat that also got stuck in a car engine.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 17 June 2026
  • The couple had been together for about 11 years and moved to Seattle several years ago with their tabby cat, Otis, Bailey said.
    — oregonlive, 23 June 2023
  • His tabby brother sits almost on top of him protectively, staring up at the camera, before lying beside him and reaching an arm across the recovering black kitten.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The poster shows the tabby cat standing on top of an ice cream freezer in front of a line of various candies like Butterfingers and Mounds at the convenience store the feline calls home.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The duo worked with landscape designer Sam Comer to devise a surface of tabby concrete tiles which blend in with the home’s stucco and also optimize drainage in the rainy months.
    — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The hilarious clip shared in August by @_haileyruff_, shows the senior tabby cat lying on her owner’s bed, keeping one eye closed and the other one open, for no apparent reason.
    — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Before the surgical removal of the cat's reproductive organs to prevent reproduction, Izzy, the tabby cat, didn't like to be touched and wouldn't go near people or cats.
    — Lucy Notarantonio, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2025

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