You cannot really tame a crayfish, but it will get a little less wild if you are gentle and consistent.
"It's gotten a lot less wild than it used to be," another leaper commented nostalgically.
Under its influence, she was a bit less wild, less prone to yell obscenities in the street when frustrated, and more controllable.
Generally speaking, today's Met seems a little less wild than his predecessors of the late eighties, favoring Chicago, for instance, over Miami by a small margin.
They had taken bronze at London 2012 and, if their celebrations here were a little less wild, it was only because they had been warned.
Later on, as I got a little less wild and my boyfriend and I braved my landlord's wrath in an effort to make the apartment habitable, we rebuilt the floor beneath it, patched the chipped enamel and presented the tub to the world unapologetically.
The planet isn't as big, so it does feel a lot less wild than in those guys' times.
It's a little less wild than some of Brazil's famous, but it lasts until the Saturday after Ash Wednesday.
Al Rockoff, once a wild and daring much-wounded freelance photographer -- and now an only slightly less wild free spirit with a frighteningly untrammeled gray beard -- has become a part of the history he recorded, pretty much by standing still.
Mr. Schepers's organization — a partnership backed by the Dutch branch of the environmental group WWF and other organizations — has ambitious plans to allow enormous swaths of Europe that are gradually losing population to resume a more or less wild state.
