Sentence examples for try to tame from inspiring English sources

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"try to tame" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an effort to reduce or control something that is wild, chaotic or difficult to manage. For example, "He tried to tame the wild horse, but it was too skittish for him to handle."

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Don't try to tame every bad habit at once.

(All tempered, of course, but we'll try to tame the inner curmudgeon here).

To try to tame Cono again, Mrs. Crandles introduced him to Mr. Bender.

Instead they must try to tame the Cubs with only two certainties in their rotation: Corey Kluber and Josh Tomlin.

The company recently hired a doctor of pharmacy to work with the P.B.M. to try to tame these costs.

MP: Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.

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I would be trying to tame the untamable creature within.

For more than a century editors tried to tame Dickinson's syntax and writers tried to tame her psyche.

Trying to tame Ms. Martinet is like trying to blow out the bubbles in Champagne.

Those challenges are what Mr. Samaras appears to be trying to tame.

Any law trying to tame the Internet, he said, is likely to run into turbulence.

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