How to Use tamp in a Sentence

tamp

1 of 2 verb
Definition of tampnext
Synonyms for tampnext
  • 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
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tamp

2 of 2 noun
  • Then, fill the frame with concrete or gravel and tamp or screed it to the leveled edges.
    — Rena Behar, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 May 2022
  • Back fill in the hole with the soil, tamp down the soil gently around the plant, and feed with some balanced fertilizer.
    — Arricca Sansone, Country Living, 1 Aug. 2018
  • Cons: The tamp gets locked into the machine and can be hard to release; the instructions aren't thorough.
    — Rennie Dyball, PEOPLE.com, 11 July 2022
  • If the hole was mistakenly dug too deep, put some native soil back in the hole and tamp firmly.
    — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 26 Oct. 2020
  • That saves time, eliminates spilled grinds, and provides an even tamp.
    — Louis Mazzante, Popular Mechanics, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Administration officials said the idea had not been pushed with Mr. Trump and tried to tamp talk of it down.
    — New York Times, 19 Aug. 2019
  • He is expected to impose order and discipline, tamp down the chaos.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2017
  • The key question now is whether the US counterattack tamps down the cycle of violence or escalates it.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2019
  • High prices generate a short burst of profits but can undermine economic growth and tamp down demand.
    — Rebecca Elliott and Christopher M. Matthews, WSJ, 24 June 2018
  • Emanuel, for his part, is trying to boost officer morale and tamp down violence on the South and West sides, which some blame on officers scaling back activity to avoid trouble.
    — Dan Hinkel, chicagotribune.com, 17 May 2017
  • The scientists found that the animals with gut bugs from the runners were better able to resist and heal tissue damage and tamp down inflammation than those whose microbes had come from sedentary mice.
    — Gretchen Reynolds, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2018
  • These cellular cyborgs could one day step in when your body falls short in its attempts to hunt cancer cells, tamp down overactive immune responses or adjust the gut microbiome.
    — Eric Smalley, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2018
  • An economic slowdown could of course tamp down demand for gasoline, drying up refiners’ profits.
    — Rebecca Elliott, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2018
  • Another study by food scientists at Cornell University also showed in 2015 that the noise level on flights tamps down sweet flavors but amps up umami tastes in substances like tomato juice.
    — Author: Hannah Sampson, Anchorage Daily News, 21 June 2019
  • That is why the museum exhibitions would make extensive use of quotations and oral histories that would let the voices of the past, the words of those who lived the experiences, drown out or at least tamp down the traditional curatorial voice.
    — Lonnie G. Bunch Iii, Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The cells being tested in the trial are intended to both promote anti-inflammatory reactions and tamp down the microglia, ideally halting the ongoing loss of brain volume soon after the injury occurs.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Karen reported that Amazon is trying tricks to get people to order less — like showing long delivery times on items deemed low priority, to give Amazon more flexibility to fulfill orders and tamp down demand.
    — Shira Ovide, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
  • But with the public thirsty for information on the coronavirus, doctors across the country have taken to social media — Twitter, in particular — to snuff out misinformation, tamp down rumors and spread science about the coronavirus outbreaks.
    — Michael Cabanatuan, SFChronicle.com, 4 Apr. 2020
  • Bitcoin’s advocates were hopeful that its introduction on Wall Street would legitimize the cryptocurrency as an asset class; a futures exchange was intended to reveal its true price, or at least tamp down its ever-climbing value.
    — Maya Kosoff, The Hive, 11 Dec. 2017
  • For now, Fed officials would likely be relieved to see the rate of hiring slow and unemployment stabilize at its current, historically low levels, all of which tamp down worries that growth is becoming unsustainable.
    — Nick Timiraos, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2018
  • Negative selection favors homogeneity by putting a tamp down on the variation which mutation introduces, purifying the gene pool.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 17 Sep. 2013
  • The situation has become so alarming that two years ago the National Congress of American Indians—the country’s oldest and largest organization of tribal governments—passed a resolution designed to tamp down smoking rates and save lives.
    — Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Then, fill the frame with concrete or gravel and tamp or screed it to the leveled edges.
    — Rena Behar, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 May 2022
  • Back fill in the hole with the soil, tamp down the soil gently around the plant, and feed with some balanced fertilizer.
    — Arricca Sansone, Country Living, 1 Aug. 2018
  • Cons: The tamp gets locked into the machine and can be hard to release; the instructions aren't thorough.
    — Rennie Dyball, PEOPLE.com, 11 July 2022
  • If the hole was mistakenly dug too deep, put some native soil back in the hole and tamp firmly.
    — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 26 Oct. 2020
  • That saves time, eliminates spilled grinds, and provides an even tamp.
    — Louis Mazzante, Popular Mechanics, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Administration officials said the idea had not been pushed with Mr. Trump and tried to tamp talk of it down.
    — New York Times, 19 Aug. 2019
  • He is expected to impose order and discipline, tamp down the chaos.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2017
  • The key question now is whether the US counterattack tamps down the cycle of violence or escalates it.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2019

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