Example sentences for: tame

How can you use “tame” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Some of the movement's frailty stems from the failure to tame China and from general compassion fatigue, but the biggest weakness is that activists make no effort to generate popular support for human rights causes.

  • You’ll find handsome polished cedarwood cups, bowls, trays, and masks — as well as kitsch renditions of the tame deer that loiter lazily around the island’s major tourist attractions, waiting (sometimes impatiently) for a free snack from yet another fascinated visitor.

  • The Times reports that America Online has become a lively center of discourse-sometimes too lively for the company's admittedly tame taste.

  • The robust barrio weathered attempts to tame and tether it as part of the 1992 waterfront sterilization scheme, but it has mostly survived.

  • The birds in this Old San Juan park are almost tame and are sure to feed from the hand.


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