How to Use tamp in a Sentence

tamp

1 of 2 verb
  • Backfill and tamp down the soil.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Fill your trays with soil and gently tamp down each cell.
    — Marianne Willburn, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Finish filling the hole and tamp again.
    — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026
  • When the hole is half full, use your foot to gently tamp down the soil around the root ball.
    — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Tuesday’s rain tamped down the dust that was an issue at last year’s meet.
    — Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 18 Oct. 2025
  • And this wasn’t the only place where speakers were seeking to tamp down hype.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Chase tried to tamp the flames by denying the telegram was sent, but to little avail.
    — Anne Halsey, JSTOR Daily, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Arch had to tamp down on those expectations.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Once in place, carefully tamp down the soil with your hands and water well to firm the soil.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Large fans draw in oxygen to fuel the fire and vent hot air, while steel rollers tamp out embers.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 15 Nov. 2025
  • If inflation starts to rise, the Fed may increase rates to tamp it down.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2026
  • With Lee’s help, Capote worked to tamp down misgivings.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The rain event should tamp down wildfire danger but will soak anyone camping.
    — Zach Urness, USA Today, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Backfill the soil, tamp it down well to remove air pockets, and water it well.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 21 July 2023
  • Trump said Tuesday about his efforts to tamp down on crime in major cities.
    — Sara Dorn, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Afterlife movies tend to be amiable in a goofy way, one that ends up tamping down the stakes.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
  • But tweaking commercials may help to tamp down the problem.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 11 May 2026
  • Taylor tamped down his penalty problem against the Jaguars.
    — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Then top the planting area off with your compost and soil mixture, tamp down, and water well.
    — Charlotte Germane, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Feb. 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
  • The desserts — peach cobbler, banana pudding or vanilla ice cream — tamp down the burn.
    — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Oct. 2025
  • One thing that could tamp down the rate of increase in sales though is the potential upward push of home prices.
    — Brad Hunter, Forbes.com, 7 Jan. 2026
  • But the latest system is merely helping to tamp down the threat of wildfires.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2022
  • The haze from fire smoke in Portland’s skies Wednesday didn’t help tamp down the heat at all.
    — oregonlive, 20 July 2023
  • Cover the Seeds Cover the seeds with more starting mix and tamp down.
    — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Bondi and the White House have sought to tamp down the Epstein talk.
    — Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 17 July 2025
  • All that water helped tamp down what could have been another highly flammable fire season.
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Bent over his cellphone, Keegan tried to tamp down sparks of optimism.
    — Jenna Russell, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Studying it, managing it, trying to tamp it down, became his life’s work.
    — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Place it over a branch so that the tinsel spills out over both sides, and tamp down the strip so it’s hidden amongst your tree’s needles.
    — Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Dec. 2025

tamp

2 of 2 noun
  • That kind of tamps down the suspense.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 24 June 2026
  • Flush the area with isopropyl alcohol, tamp, and let dry.
    — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 25 June 2026
  • Flush with water, apply white vinegar, and tamp.
    — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 25 June 2026
  • Flush area with isopropyl alcohol, and tamp.
    — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 25 June 2026
  • The desserts — peach cobbler, banana pudding or vanilla ice cream — tamp down the burn.
    — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Set them at the same level or slightly lower than in the pot and tamp soil down to keep plants straight and upright.
    — Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 27 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • He is expected to impose order and discipline, tamp down the chaos.
    — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2017
  • Backfill with native soil and tamp lightly to eliminate any air pockets.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 July 2025
  • The concern is how to reduce emissions and tamp down on temperature rises.
    — Ken Silverstein, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • It’s often used (both as a whole-head overnight treatment and a post-styling sealing technique) to seal in hydration and tamp down frizz.
    — Grace McCarty, Glamour, 6 Feb. 2026
  • There is also a wide variety of tamping tools that can be useful in achieving a consistent tamp.
    — Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • Could the cease-fire tamp down on the regional fighting that’s taken place since October 7?
    — Foreign Affairs, 17 Jan. 2025
  • His message could be persuasive with politicians who want to save local news and tamp down the power of big technology.
    — Alex Sherman, CNBC, 26 July 2024
  • An economic slowdown could of course tamp down demand for gasoline, drying up refiners’ profits.
    — Rebecca Elliott, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2018
  • The tamp function combined with the more compact container kept everything together.
    — Megan Wahn, Bon Appétit, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The key question now is whether the US counterattack tamps down the cycle of violence or escalates it.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • This test introduced me to what would soon become my favorite feature from the Ascent X series—the tamp notification.
    — Megan Wahn, Bon Appétit, 18 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • The outcome could help spur or further tamp down the flow of money into Chinese markets when global confidence in China is already shaken.
    — Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2024
  • But national unemployment, and perhaps local, will fluctuate and move upward in the coming months as the Fed tamp down on inflation takes effect.
    — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • This serum finishes hair with a super-smoothing shine that seals ragged ends, thanks to its silicones, which cosmetic chemist Randy Schueller has told Allure to act like a sealant and tamp down frizz.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 21 Dec. 2024
  • It’s not known exactly how much an anti-inflammatory diet tamps down inflammation nor how much of certain food items someone should eat to see the benefits, Sharma said.
    — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 18 Oct. 2023
  • 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 drug tocilizumab tamps down a molecule called IL-6 that triggers damaging inflammation in some autoimmune and other diseases.
    — ABC News, 3 June 2026
  • Its high-end features are hard to beat, like its customizable conical burr grinder and intelligent dosing system to automatically calculate the amount of ground coffee based on your last grind and tamp.
    — Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 25 Sep. 2025

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