tamed

Example Sentences

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There was a strong feeling the Pennsylvania course might be ripe for being tamed.

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Lately, though, options prices have been tamed by an influx of supply from deep-pocketed insurance agents.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 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

Instead of fields of tamed cotton, I see a crowd of red-faced people.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes