Example sentences for: temper

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

  • It advances McCain's campaign themes--integrity and fearless independence--while sating reporters who imagine that their questions about his "temper" amount to tough-minded scrutiny.

  • "It seems fairer to conclude that Hillary's flaring temper was an understandable reaction to the humiliation to which she was subjected on a regular basis."

  • Consider Diana, the baby sitter to the Sloane Ranger crowd who apparently threw daily temper tantrums from the moment she entered the royal palace, who developed a pathological jealousy of her husband's ex-girlfriend that may have driven him back into her arms.

  • But McCain understands that while voters want a president who can control his temper, they also want one with a sense of outrage.

  • Most pundits think McCain won the debate, and many--like Fox 's Susan Estrich and Dick Morris--appreciate his jokes about Alan Greenspan's mortality and his own temper.


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