tame
adjective
changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated.
was taming
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past progressiveof tame.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Where Mme Soloviev was taming animals last week the Labor Department did not know.
From Time Magazine Archive
During the time that I was taming the birds, I made another skirt.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
She was taming down a little by this time, ashamed of that outbreak of violent passion, feeling that she had revealed too much to Lady Kirkbank.
From Phantom Fortune, a Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
Adversity was taming him down, and to his surprise he found himself talking in a very different tone to his men, who yielded a readier obedience than of old.
From Middy and Ensign by G. D. Rowlandson
I woke up one night, and was afraid the crow that I was taming in the back garden might be hungry.
From Fernley House by Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze) Barry
