How to Use tame in a Sentence

tame

1 of 2 adjective

• The island's birds are quite tame.
• They ran a pretty tame campaign.
• Members of the audience were too tame to interrupt the speaker.
• Some people were shocked by the movie, but I found the story pretty tame.
• And in a way, (the song) was very tame next to a bunch of other things.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 23 July 2023
• Compared with the West, the risks faced by the largest Asian economies look tame.
  — Paul Swartz, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2022
• This jam helps to tame flyaways and doesn't weigh down the hair or leave white flakes.
  — Nerisha Penrose, ELLE, 10 Sep. 2022
• Porkchop wags her curved tail at the sight of people and is so tame and cheery.
  — Pam McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 26 Sep. 2022
• Flair’s chops looked very tame, though Lethal and Jarrett did their best to sell them.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
• This bronzer keeps things tame on the shimmer front, adding just a hint of shine to highlight your shade.
  — April Long, Town & Country, 26 Jan. 2023
• Made for all hair types, the products increase shine, tame frizz, and hydrate hair.
  — Enjanae' Taylor, Southern Living, 21 Nov. 2023
• The Call Me by Your Name peach scene is tame by comparison.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2023
• Pretty much wall-to-wall sunshine and tame wind — just a few brief gusts from the northeast around 10 mph here and there.
  — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024
• In Bones and All, the gore is paired with a love story that’s surprisingly tame.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2022
• He was joined by Nick Saban for a tame-by-his-standards message to the offense.
  — Mike Rodak | [e-mail], al, 12 Nov. 2022
• Raw caught somewhat of a break against a tame head-to-head matchup against Monday Night Football, if there is such a thing.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• This grooming set comes with nine pieces that’ll have his neckline looking smooth, tame, and smelling fresh in no time.
  — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 20 Sep. 2022
• Otherwise, pretty tame through the night, with clouds tending to clear.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2023
• Negril in Jamaica is a tamer property than its Turks and Caicos siblings, at less than a third the size.
  — Hannah Selinger, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
• The injury is the result of an otherwise tame round of laser tag before the second-to-last show in Kansas City.
  — Aileen Goos, SPIN, 30 Nov. 2023
• Fed Chair Jerome Powell is on a high-stakes mission to tame inflation.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2022
• Plaza’s first play as a professional actress is not a tame one.
  — Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023
• That pretty much sums up why the expectations for the Canadians tend to be rather tame.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022
• An old hairstylist trick is to lightly mist your brush or comb with some hairspray to tame frizzies and flyaways.
  — Bella Cacciatore, Glamour, 19 Sep. 2022
• The neighborhood is tame, Phillips said outside the crime scene, but gun violence seems to be getting worse.
  — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 17 Oct. 2022
• Historic rate hike after historic rate hike have done little to tame prices.
  — Cnn Business, CNN, 13 Oct. 2022
• The action and adventure are very tame, and there are no mean characters who cause problems.
  — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
• This is one of the tamer creations among a broader scallion pancake reimagining.
  — Cathy Erway, Bon Appétit, 5 Sep. 2023
• Aside from the Tarantino-esque muppet massacre, this was a pretty tame episode by Gen V standards.
  — Alex Raiman, EW.com, 13 Oct. 2023
• Oil prices have been relatively tame, despite a slew of challenges overseas.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 11 Mar. 2024

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tame

2 of 2 verb

• It took a while to tame the horse.
• He struggled to tame his temper.
• The government needs to do something to tame inflation.
• It can be used to dull aches and pains and tame a fever.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2023
• Will we be forced to turn the backlighting all the way down just to tame it?
  — Condé Nast, WIRED, 9 Jan. 2024
• Listen to what your kids already do on their own to tame their screen time.
  — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
• The Fed wasn’t able to tame inflation or grow the economy.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 2 May 2023
• There are a lot of other compounds that can enhance the heat or tame the heat.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 26 Oct. 2023
• This step not only toasts the rice but tames its tendency to foam up and boil over later.
  — Nancy Baggett, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• He cannot be tamed and leaves his brother’s widow and his home behind.
  — Sara C. Hahn, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2024
• Many attempts were made to recapture him, but the swift-moving owl could not be tamed.
  — USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
• First construction crews had to tame the Elm Fork of the Trinity River and bring land out of the floodplain.
  — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 24 Mar. 2023
• Each choice adds cost, at a time when governments around the world are struggling to tame inflation.
  — Ruth Liao, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2023
• Allow to stand 10 to 15 minutes so lemon can tame the garlic flavor.
  — Bhg Test Kitchen, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Feb. 2023
• Dynamite and dredging were the tools chosen to drain the Everglades and tame the waters.
  — Time, 12 July 2023
• Bulls hoped the rate increases are nearly over and inflation has been tamed.
  — Terry Savage, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2023
• To blow out Carpenter's hair, King used a dime-sized amount of Hair Balm to help smooth it out and tame frizz before using a blow dryer.
  — Emily Rochotte, Women's Health, 11 July 2023
• Before use, rinse to tame the saltiness and be sure to discard the seeds; because of the fermentation process, the rind and pith are fine to consume and will taste the same as the flesh.
  — Zaynab Issa, Bon Appétit, 8 Feb. 2023
• Mix together sour cream, mayonnaise, and blue cheese for a blue cheese dressing to tame the heat.
  — Samantha Lande, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Jan. 2024
• For a thousand years, locals have tamed the cliffs by terracing them with stone walls from top to bottom.
  — Julia Buckley, Travel + Leisure, 18 Nov. 2023
• The result is a reel with the finesse needed to land the smallest native, but with enough horsepower to tame the largest steelhead.
  — Morgan Lyle, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
• Bringley sometimes tries to tame his overwhelming feelings about the art by bringing it down to earth.
  — Mary Jo Murphy, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2023
• This nourishing action helps tame the hair, soften it, and grow.
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Dec. 2022
• The habanero’s heat is tamed by citrus, allowing its zesty and flowery flavors to shine.
  — Pati Jinich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2024
• That’s one reason central bankers, who have been working hard to tame surging prices, have recognized that the process could be drawn-out.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 17 Feb. 2023
• Recommended by stylists, a little squeeze or dab of it is enough to hold your hair and tame your frizz without weighing it down.
  — John Thompson, Men's Health, 14 Feb. 2023
• Their frizz was regularly tamed and the hair oil nourished their sometimes dry ends.
  — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 3 Nov. 2023
• Something of the sort happened in the 1980s, when Paul A. Volcker was the Fed chairman, and had to tame double-digit inflation.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2024
• Trying to keep up with all your car can do has become a nightmare, tamed slightly with the advent of voice assistants.
  — Tim Stevens, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2024
• That, of course, is the main challenge: taming inflation and putting the country on a sustainable economic path.
  — Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024