Sentence examples for dampened on from inspiring English sources
The amusement-park aspect of any auto show, the innocent enjoyment of cars for their own sake, was dampened on many levels this year.
As with many baby boomers, my risk appetite has been dampened on two fronts.
Your return is dampened on the upside because the government taxes some of it away.
But it's also dampened on the downside because you can use your losses to offset other gains and income.
Yet the jovial mood was dampened on occasion by sombre references to the eurozone's financial situation and uncertain future.
A sit-in outside the Pakistani Parliament House in Islamabad was dampened on September 4, due to heavy rains.
Higher bond yields, a bad omen for business, dampened trading on Wall Street on Wednesday.
The completed glove is dampened, tailored on an electrically heated metal model hand, and buffed.
Last night Mr Miliband dampened speculation on an SNP-Labour deal in the event of a hung parliament, telling ITV1's The Agenda programme that it was "up to other parties how they vote on the Queen's Speech".
Calls dampened activity on the right side of the brain.
In a statement published after the experiment was completed, the Alfred Wegener Institute, where Smetacek works, said the results "dampened hopes on the potential of the Southern Ocean to sequester significant amounts of carbon dioxide and thus mitigate global warming".
