tamed

Example Sentences

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Amen Corner was tamed, and McIlroy was on the home straight.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

Cities are squalid crime hives that need to be tamed or abandoned in the Sheridanverse, whereas small towns and Western vistas are quaint canvases fertile with possibility.

From Salon • Mar. 23, 2026

Sondheim’s were instead tamed by his art, Okrent suggests, which shaped his “textured, contradictory, troubling, and gratifying life.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

Part of Goolsbee’s caution on inflation was that services inflation isn’t tamed, and core inflation—which he says is a steadier measure of price increases—came in at around a 3.6% annual rate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

Mama does that, too, and it always makes me smile because we both know our eyebrows won’t ever be tamed.

From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott