Example sentences for: tame

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

  • as if the circuit of the city wall were a permeable membrane admitting the wilderness inside, wild and tame inter- penetrating,

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

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

  • Feminists could shut out Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex as too tame.

  • 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."


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