Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Definitions

tabby

[tab-ee] / ˈtæb i /


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

In New York, apparently it’s now financially impossible to own a tabby without state assistance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

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.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2026

Since then, the white and tabby cat, officially introduced on Downing Street's website as the "Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office", has reigned supreme from the country's most photographed doorstep.

From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026

Who knows how long the tenacious tabby would have continued with this Sisyphean task had Rumi not stepped in?

From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2025

The cat, a tabby with white chest and paws, was at the further end of the little yard, walking slowly and deliberately along the side of a pile of logs.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

These untamed mousers would eventually evolve into the fluffy tabbies, Siberians and ragdolls that dominate today’s social-media algorithms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

I foster cats and I’m actually fostering two sister tabbies right now — Lucy and Ethel — and the CatCafe Lounge has taken probably 12 of the cats I’ve fostered and gotten them adopted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024

She contends that cats—from tabbies to tigers—are quintessential products of evolution.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 4, 2023

I have plans to make a music room, a library, and a cat heaven for my three tabbies, but I updated the studio first with plans to rent it out.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2022

It attached itself to no person, as was the case with some of the others, but curiously took a particular fancy to one of my short-haired silver tabbies; the two appeared always together.

From Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat by Gordon Stables


Vocabulary lists containing tabby

Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

Get a word

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Look it up. Learn it forever.

Remember new words for good with VocabTrainer. Expand your vocabulary effortlessly with personalized learning tools that adapt to your goals.

Take me to Vocabulary.com