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Example Sentences
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Sales more than likely will be tamped down by selling days lost to the snowstorm, lingering store closures, supply-chain delays, and shoppers riding out the frigid temperatures at home.
From Barron's
While homeowners who would have sold otherwise may choose to stay put at a time when home prices and mortgage rates have tamped down on demand, builders have no such luxury.
From Barron's
The combination of an already-oversupplied oil market and U.S. efforts to potentially bring Venezuelan oil to the U.S. for refining could continue to tamp down those costs for drivers.
As we returned the dug-up riverbank to its former condition, tamping down the muddy area where the treasure had lain, Mr. Pinkerton and my aunt pondered the next step.
From Literature
When I exclaim aloud at this huge number, he tamps down my amazement: “No, no. There’s so much left—90% of this music is still unrecovered, unknown.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
