Sentence examples for dampened them from inspiring English sources
Costs peaked in 2008; economic gloom has since dampened them.
"They say it dampens forces, but does it dampen them enough to reduce the chances of concussion?" Dr. Giza asked.
And it would take more than the failure of a single airline, "glamorous" or otherwise, to dampen them.
Then at the end, I could drizzle in the tiniest bit of vinegar, just enough to heighten all the flavors and bring them together without dampening them.
Pile them in an out-of-the-way corner or in a bin made of wood snow fencing or hog wire, and dampen them if necessary.
This will not neutralise the effects of a fiscal stimulus entirely (as the experience of 1995-96 showed), but it may be enough to dampen them.
And as another provocative new study of brain activity after exercise found, some overweight, sedentary people respond to exercise by revving their food-reward systems, not dampening them.
Folkestone is one of those English seaside towns which, on a nice day, can lift the spirits but, in the drizzle, dampens them.
It's probably time to stop betting on booms and bubbles and go back to the safer strategy of dampening them all.
Oil traders say that an increase of at least 800,000 barrels would keep prices stable, and one million barrels a day would dampen them a bit.
Once such a system moves away from equilibrium, the (privately) rational choices of individual decision makers tend to accentuate disturbances rather than dampening them.
