How To Use Tamely In A Sentence
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She's not likely to stand by and tamely accept defeat.
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Then Garry O'Connor took his turn, scampering unhindered before shooting tamely across goal.
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There was no excuse though when Thomas shot tamely wide from eight yards.
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should not tamely submit to the unpredictable and ununderstood cycles of wars
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Roberts should have done better than shoot tamely wide when more clever work by Moran led to Bracey palming his acute-angled shot into the big striker's path.
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There was no excuse though when Thomas shot tamely wide from eight yards.
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Yet they neither copy Japan nor submit tamely to foreign domination.
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Today, the sea laps tamely over the shingle beach beside the tangle of narrow streets.
Times, Sunday Times
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It began rather tamely, I am afraid, and started to fall to pieces after the first fortissimo downward scale.
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But he added just ten more runs before tamely cutting to backward point.
The Sun
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the labour movement allowed itself to be run out of power tamely
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We did a little riding on the back/country roads, getting some nice lean angles and corner speeds, but he took those pretty tamely considering the extra 165 pounds on the back (that's another thing, this thing was so friggin 'overwhelmingly powerful and fast, and it was carrying around an extra person ... and he didn't use full throttle because the extra weight at the back makes it kind of wheelie-prone).
Kevynwight Diary Entry
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Were you a native of Greece, where to exhibit in the public games [e] is an honourable employment; and if the gods had bestowed upon you the force and sinew of the athletic Nicostratus [f]; do you imagine that I could look tamely on, and see that amazing vigour waste itself away in nothing better than the frivolous art of darting the javelin, or throwing the coit?
A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements
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There was no excuse though when Thomas shot tamely wide from eight yards.
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His neglect of you will justify any step you [Page 148] may take," added he; "and it is a matter of universal astonishment that you, who upon other occasions can act with such becoming spirit, should tamely continue to bear such infidelities from a husband.
Memoirs of Mary Robinson
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Tamely scooting up and down for hours on end is a poor substitute for triple loops and double back flips while still holding on to the peak of your baseball cap with one hand.
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She's not likely to stand by and tamely accept defeat.
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Keeper Nicky Roberts - who had a good game otherwise - misjudged the catch and the ball hopped tamely and agonisingly over the goal line.
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There was no excuse though when Thomas shot tamely wide from eight yards.
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She's not likely to stand by and tamely accept defeat.
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But he added just ten more runs before tamely cutting to backward point.
The Sun
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The story concerns the strenuous career of Alessandro Stradella, and when you read it you will not wonder that it should have made a great success as an opera, or that it gave Flotow his greatest popularity next to “Martha,” even though its conclusion was made tamely theatrical.
The Love Affairs of Great Musicians
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But no! Instead of surrendering tamely the inspired madmen in the cars ran amok and played a merry game of follow-my-leader up and down and round and through the ranks of the enemy, until they had fired off most of their ammunition.
With Our Army in Palestine
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Today, the sea laps tamely over the shingle beach beside the tangle of narrow streets.
Times, Sunday Times
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Today, the sea laps tamely over the shingle beach beside the tangle of narrow streets.
Times, Sunday Times
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Today, the sea laps tamely over the shingle beach beside the tangle of narrow streets.
Times, Sunday Times
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Today, the sea laps tamely over the shingle beach beside the tangle of narrow streets.
Times, Sunday Times
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While the young herdsman and Dick stood by passive and admiring, this _toro bravo_ of famous fighting breed reduced his run to a canter, and trotted up to Pilar as tamely as if he had been a belled _cabestro_.
The Car of Destiny
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She's not likely to stand by and tamely accept defeat.
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Today, the sea laps tamely over the shingle beach beside the tangle of narrow streets.
Times, Sunday Times
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Therefore they will submit tamely to the extinction of the greater number of their kind.
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Too much time, too much energy, too much passion had he put into his battle to become the First Man in Rome, to stand by tamely and see the luster of his name dimmed by a precocious aristocrat who would come into his own when he, Gaius Marius, was too old or too dead to oppose him.
The Grass Crown