How to Use tamp in a Sentence

tamp

verb

• Add the plant and backfill the soil, tamping down firmly.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 15 June 2023
• The haze from fire smoke in Portland’s skies Wednesday didn’t help tamp down the heat at all.
  — oregonlive, 20 July 2023
• The deluge wiped out a 2.5-inch rainfall deficit in San Diego, and greatly tamped down the threat of wildfires.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2024
• But the latest system is merely helping to tamp down the threat of wildfires.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2022
• Backfill the soil, tamp it down well to remove air pockets, and water it well.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 21 July 2023
• Then place your tree in the hole, backfill soil, tamp down to remove air pockets and water well.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 1 May 2023
• Then top the planting area off with your compost and soil mixture, tamp down, and water well.
  — Charlotte Germane, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Sep. 2022
• Since the 1950s, the US government has used it to tamp down screwworms, parasitic flies that feed on the flesh of livestock.
  — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 28 June 2023
• But there is a third option: a world of speech in which viral harassment is tamped down but ideas are not.
  — Jaron Lanier, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2024
• The central bank wants to tamp economic growth to slow inflation, which hit a 40-year high last year.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 7 July 2023
• Dip the sponge in the solution and tamp the stain vigorously to break up the paint. Rinse thoroughly.
  — Lauren Smith McDonough, Good Housekeeping, 2 Feb. 2023
• And strikingly, these high prices didn’t tamp down demand, says D’Arpizio.
  — Hillary Hoffower, Fortune, 2 Nov. 2023
• But since then, he's tamped down his ad spending, and Best of America has spent $2.1 million so far this month.
  — Ben Kamisar, NBC News, 16 Aug. 2023
• Users must add the grounds and tamp the coffee properly before attaching the portafilter to pull the shot.
  — Alyssa Brascia, Peoplemag, 13 June 2023
• In an effort to tamp down inflation, the central bank has raised the federal funds rate four times this year.
  — Kathy Orton, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2022
• Bent over his cellphone, Keegan tried to tamp down sparks of optimism.
  — Jenna Russell, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• The move gives the bank extra firepower to tamp down the bond yield if market pressure is pushing it higher.
  — Megumi Fujikawa, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2022
• Aguilar said secretaries of state have more work ahead of them to tamp down false election claims as 2024 approaches.
  — Amy Gardner, Reis Thebault and Robert Klemko, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Nov. 2022
• The Fed is trying to tamp down spending in an effort to control inflation.
  — Ben Casselman, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2023
• Dig holes that are larger than the pot your seedling is growing in, set your seedlings into the prepared soil and tamp them firmly into place.
  — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Jan. 2023
• Some had water spurting from their machines, but others had nothing to tamp down the powder rising in the air.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2023
• As the Fed hiked rates over the past 20 months to tamp down soaring prices for consumer goods, CDs became an attractive place to place short-term savings.
  — Mallika Mitra, wsj.com, 29 Nov. 2023
• Studying it, managing it, trying to tamp it down, became his life’s work.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• Forecasters say the downpour in North and East counties will help tamp down the risk of wildfires well into December.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Nov. 2022
• The increase is taking some heat out of the U.S. job market and could help the Fed’s efforts to tamp down inflation by stabilizing wage growth.
  — Zlati Meyer, WSJ, 28 July 2023
• The dome is actually a strong area of high pressure that will pump up temperatures through the Midwest and Southeast and tamp down rain chances through much of the week.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 21 Aug. 2023
• Last week, the Federal Reserve paused its streak of interest rate hikes for the first time in its 18-month campaign to tamp down inflation.
  — Courtney Subramanian, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2023
• All that water helped tamp down what could have been another highly flammable fire season.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2023
• The history of online shopping is that of tamping down friction at almost any cost.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2023
• But a rise in long-term Treasury yields could be doing some of that work for the Fed and may put an end to the past 19 months of historic interest rate hikes meant to tamp down inflation.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 20 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024