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.

  • USAT 's "Money" section front points to a Y2K-related panic point few have discussed before now: a possible year-end-driven gas crunch that could, in the paper's words, "make lines at ATM machines and supermarket checkouts seem tame by comparison."

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

  • The park on the hill of Monte makes a good playground, while the ride down in a wicker toboggan is straight out of an Old World theme park (though surely tame for older kids).

  • Europa sits innocently on the back of a tame bull while a handmaiden tends to her mistress's unruly hair.


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