Example sentences for: tame

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

  • Instead of trying to tame inner-city housing projects with different kinds of architecture, lower density, and income mixing, the Department of Housing and Urban Development should redefine its purpose: to help its tenants escape the ghetto.

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

  • In return, the British learned the delights of polo (imported with the Mughals from Persia and Afghanistan) and a kind of game-hunting that made grouse-shooting seem tame.

  • Early verdicts from the press: 1) The ruling will tame Microsoft and hearten its competitors.

  • Except in winter, Ribeira Brava’s river is more of a tame trickle.


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