TEMPERATE in a Sentence
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245 example sentences for TEMPERATE, such as:
1. The count was, it may be remembered, a most temperate guest.
2. They begin to temper the portfolio to match investor's needs.
3. The Nile Valley keeps a temperate climate throughout the year.
4. In a temper, Tony refused to tone down his intemperate remarks.
5. Beneath that apparently calm surface is a man of fierce temper.
2. They begin to temper the portfolio to match investor's needs.
3. The Nile Valley keeps a temperate climate throughout the year.
4. In a temper, Tony refused to tone down his intemperate remarks.
5. Beneath that apparently calm surface is a man of fierce temper.
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Meanings and Examples of TEMPERATE
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temperate
a. not extreme
a. (of weather or climate) free from extremes; mild; or characteristic of such weather or climate
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Having disposed of these evil-minded persons for the night, Mr. Bumble sat himself down in the house at which the coach stopped; and took a temperate dinner of steaks, oyster sauce, and porter.
2 Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know him.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
Context Highlight In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
3 I don't know if you have ever thought what a rare thing flame must be in the absence of man and in a temperate climate.
4 Thenardier, who was, above all, an astute and well-balanced man, was a scamp of a temperate sort.
5 They dreamed of engrafting a temperate power on the absolute and excessive principle.
6 The count was, it may be remembered, a most temperate guest.
7 But Mrs. Dashwood, trusting to the temperate account of her own disappointment which Elinor had sent her, was led away by the exuberance of her joy to think only of what would increase it.
8 I had thought, now, that at your temperate North the generations were cold and holy as the hills.
9 Her heart was too sore to care whether or not she put her father in a temper.
10 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.
11 This aroused her temper, for she cared no more about family than her father.
12 Mist Gerald in a temper was always exciting, providing his temper was not directed at her kinky head.
13 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.
14 Heretofore she had never bothered to control her temper except in Ellen's presence.
15 If only he would ever lose his temper too, then she would not feel at such a disadvantage.
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1 The high desert plains are beautiful and have a more temperate climate, but for some people, the altitude is a health problem.
2 Try to be temperate in your eating this holiday season; if you control your appetite, you won't gain too much weight.
3 No man can be brave who considers pain the greatest evil of life; or temperate, who regards pleasure as the highest good.
4 The Nile Valley keeps a temperate climate throughout the year.
5 He was in his after-dinner mood; more genial and also more self-indulgent than the frigid and rigid temper of the morning.
6 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.
7 They begin to temper the portfolio to match investor's needs.
8 Her big brother's teasing used to infuriate Margaret; no matter how hard she tried to keep her temper, he always got her goat.
9 Her kindness and generosity cancel out her occasional flashes of temper.
10 In a temper, Tony refused to tone down his intemperate remarks.
11 Miss Minchin's irascible temper intimidated the younger schoolgirls, who feared she'd burst into a rage at any moment.
12 But throwing empty points against him exactly likes that a teenage girl throws stuffed animals against her bedroom wall during a temper tantrum.
13 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.
14 Beneath that apparently calm surface is a man of fierce temper.
15 Reid had a hair-trigger temper: he was an easy man to rile.