TEMPERANCE in a Sentence

Learn TEMPERANCE 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 TEMPERANCE, such as:
1. Try to avoid losing your temper if at all possible.
2. And now I've lost my temper and probably ruined everything.
3. They begin to temper the portfolio to match investor's needs.
4. Beneath that apparently calm surface is a man of fierce temper.
5. In a temper, Tony refused to tone down his intemperate remarks.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of TEMPERANCE
temperance
 n.  abstaining from excess
 n.  the trait of avoiding excesses
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The Prior had his own reasons, however, for persevering in the course of temperance which he had adopted.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  "Their singular abstemiousness and temperance," said De Bracy, forgetting the plan which promised him a Saxon bride.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
3  First they done a lecture on temperance; but they didn't make enough for them both to get drunk on.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI.
4  Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag.
5  Here is the stain on the lining caused by the explosion of a temperance beverage, an incident that occurred at Leamington.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In THIRD ACT
6  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
7  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
8  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
9  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
10  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
11  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
12  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
13  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
14  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
15  And now I've lost my temper and probably ruined everything.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  Exercise, temperance, fresh air, and needful rest are the best of all physicians.
2  Lost wealth can be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone for ever.
3  The temperance movement attempted to greatly reduce the amount of alcohol consumed or even prohibit its production entirely.
4  He was in his after-dinner mood; more genial and also more self-indulgent than the frigid and rigid temper of the morning.
5  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.
6  They begin to temper the portfolio to match investor's needs.
7  Her big brother's teasing used to infuriate Margaret; no matter how hard she tried to keep her temper, he always got her goat.
8  Her kindness and generosity cancel out her occasional flashes of temper.
9  In a temper, Tony refused to tone down his intemperate remarks.
10  Miss Minchin's irascible temper intimidated the younger schoolgirls, who feared she'd burst into a rage at any moment.
11  But throwing empty points against him exactly likes that a teenage girl throws stuffed animals against her bedroom wall during a temper tantrum.
12  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.
13  Beneath that apparently calm surface is a man of fierce temper.
14  Reid had a hair-trigger temper: he was an easy man to rile.
15  Try to avoid losing your temper if at all possible.