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Example sentences for: temper

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

Democrats, banished from the White House, learned to temper their ambitions.
Of course, Malone did temper his visionary side with a hard-boiled business side.
The Southern word for a “temper tantrum,' hissy (“She had a hissy when I told her she couldn't go”), first recorded in 1934, has three plausible derivations.
On the set, he is known for his temper, smashing cell phones and lobbing insults at colleagues.
The magazine profiles Metropolitan Opera General Manager Joseph Volpe, who began his career as a set-building carpenter and now rules the institution with workmanlike practicality and a diva-sized temper.