TEMPER in a Sentence

Learn TEMPER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
245 example sentences for TEMPER, such as:
1. She scowled and her temper came back.
2. Try to avoid losing your temper if at all possible.
3. And now I've lost my temper and probably ruined everything.
4. They begin to temper the portfolio to match investor's needs.
5. Beneath that apparently calm surface is a man of fierce temper.
Search Quotes from Classic Book
Animal Farm by George Orwell
 Input your word:
Search its Sentences
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of TEMPER
temper
 v.  moderate; tone down or restrain; bring to a desired consistency; adjust finely
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Her heart was too sore to care whether or not she put her father in a temper.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  Her temper was beginning to rise again at the thought that this rude and impertinent man had heard everything--heard things she now wished she had died before she ever uttered.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  This aroused her temper, for she cared no more about family than her father.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
4  Mist Gerald in a temper was always exciting, providing his temper was not directed at her kinky head.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
5  Frequently she flared into open wrath under his expert baiting, for she had Gerald's Irish temper along with the deceptive sweetness of face she had inherited from Ellen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  Heretofore she had never bothered to control her temper except in Ellen's presence.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  If only he would ever lose his temper too, then she would not feel at such a disadvantage.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  I don't think it was childish temper and I don't believe you've changed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  He did not speak and Dr. Meade thundered, losing his temper: "Our men have fought without shoes before and without food and won victories."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
10  And now I've lost my temper and probably ruined everything.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
11  She had the temper of a Tartar and the rages of a wild cat and, at such times, she did not seem to care what she said or how much it hurt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
12  Only Mammy endured Scarlett's temper with equanimity and Mammy had had many years of training with Gerald O'Hara and his explosions.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
13  And her temper grew shorter and shorter as the weeks went by, for every dollar she saved would be just one more dollar to lose if disaster descended.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
14  She scowled and her temper came back.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
15  She was just so outdone with Hugh and the free niggers she had lost her temper.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  He was in his after-dinner mood; more genial and also more self-indulgent than the frigid and rigid temper of the morning.
2  I remember her as a slim young woman, with black hair, dark eyes, very nice features; but she had a capricious and hasty temper, and indifferent ideas of principle or justice.
3  They begin to temper the portfolio to match investor's needs.
4  Her big brother's teasing used to infuriate Margaret; no matter how hard she tried to keep her temper, he always got her goat.
5  Her kindness and generosity cancel out her occasional flashes of temper.
6  In a temper, Tony refused to tone down his intemperate remarks.
7  Miss Minchin's irascible temper intimidated the younger schoolgirls, who feared she'd burst into a rage at any moment.
8  But throwing empty points against him exactly likes that a teenage girl throws stuffed animals against her bedroom wall during a temper tantrum.
9  He was, in short, in his after-dinner mood; more expanded and genial, and also more self - indulgent than the frigid and rigid temper of the morning.
10  Beneath that apparently calm surface is a man of fierce temper.
11  Reid had a hair-trigger temper: he was an easy man to rile.
12  Try to avoid losing your temper if at all possible.
13  That temper of hers will get her into trouble one of these days.
14  The child remained under the table in a temper until his father came home.
15  On that occasion there was no one on whom his temper could be worked off.