Sentence examples for tame at from inspiring English sources

He's making even Roddick's serve look tame at the moment.

But exploits coinciding with the war in Iraq were tame at best.

Mainstream Toryism soon seemed too tame: at university in Hull, he joined the then-notorious Federation of Conservative Students.

Although it might now seem tame, at the time it was instrumental in changing the legislation against gays.

The 4 percent increase for a family is relatively tame, at least compared with the roughly 10 percent annual increases experienced a decade ago.

Or will the series' nose-thumbing defiance seem tame at a time when many young people have skipped directly to cynical despair?

It's as though the overwhelming cultural cacophony has been tamed, at least somewhat, into a more musical white noise.

But things get tamer; at base, this story of troubled amity between vermin is a conventional Felix-and-Oscar conflict between clean Roach and slovenly Rat.

But last week brought a reminder of how this beast of a megalopolis, once synonymous with danger, can seem tamed at one turn and snarling the next.

The Boldface Names column yesterday, about a lion tamer at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, misstated the way 12 elephants were confined backstage at Madison Square Garden.

A pair of fierce porcelain jungle cats are tamed (at least for now!) on highly detailed ornamental pillows, but their wildness is not to be underestimated.