In wealth, for he gave him riches and glory to his satisfaction: ‘Tantum quantum erat capax, de quibus loquitur.
While acting in the most creative way they feel entirely passive: the homo tantum et audacia which may with perfect justice be applied to such men as Elijah, Amos, and Isaiah, is with them equivalent to deus tantum et servitus.
Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum=--Could such cruelties have been perpetrated in the name of religion?
Tantum series juncturaque / Tantum de medio sumptis accedit honoris=--Such is the power of order and arrangement: so much grace may be imparted to subjects from common life.
Nulla res tantum ad discendum profuit quantum scriptio=--Nothing so much assists learning, as writing down what we wish to remember.
Quantum quisque sua nummorum servat in arca / Tantum habet et fidei=--The credit of every man is in proportion to the number of coins he keeps in his chest.
Tantum vertice in auras / Aetherias quantum radice in Tartara tendit=--Its summit stretches as far into the upper ether as its root into the nether deep.
Primo ergo nobis certum sit hæc animantia non in virtute tantum aut in semine, sed actu, et in seipsis, facta fuisse his diebus in quibus facta narrantur.
Cæsar vero tantumin nobis habet gladium petitorium, these are not times ut tempore martyrum, ubi Diocletianus solus regebat.
Please excuse us to the Prince for having drunk so much of his Grüneberger wine (‘quod tantum vini Gornbergici ligurierimus’).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tantum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
