tamped in a sentence

31- The ground that would form the house floor was moistened and then tamped with a fencepost to flatten and harden it.

32- According to some reports, Nixon himself was gleeful after the conversation ended, believing he had tamped down Johnson’s suspicions.

33- I tamped my anger into a most measured tone: “Weren’t we to go on?” Squeezing the orange pained my knuckles, but I did that over pitching it at him.

34- Yesterday, they dug the hole in the wrong place so it was too big, so lots of stone tamped down finally secured it.

35- News that the U.S. would “not rule out anything that would be constructive,” though U.S. officials quickly tamped down speculation that the discussion might include military coordination or consultation.

36- This is pure instinct and in a modern world where instincts are tamped down into a small space in the back of our minds, it causes a lot of trouble.

37- As each tread was scraped flush and tamped , we moved up to the next; when the surface water had run off, the step could be finished.



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