Example sentences for: intemperate

How can you use “intemperate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • If impeachment comes, the Judiciary Committee may or may not be judicious, but it will certainly be intemperate.

  • Some Bevilacquas drank even less water than their wineloving neighbors ( Bevivinos may have been even more intemperate); the spiritual love of some Amantis was directed toward women other than their wives and the patronymic form D'Amanti given to the children of such unions; some Santillis and Salvos were notably profane; and some Carideos and Donadios were assumed to be dear to or given by God because no one else stepped forward to explain how they came to be left on the steps of convents or monasteries.

  • Although the Republicans once drew the scorn of historians--they were seen as intemperate ideologues--since the 1960s, they've mostly been cast as the good guys in the Reconstruction fight.

  • But while she will no doubt be splendid on their millennial campaign, it's hard to see how her intemperate wit will find adequate targets in either a Gore Jr. or a W. Bush administration.


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