Example sentences for: temperament

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

  • This is either good news or bad news, depending on your temperament.

  • Obviously, a president's ambition, judgment, temperament, integrity, and ways of relating with other people (among other psychological qualities) bear greatly on how he will govern--at least as greatly as whatever election-year stands he stakes out on "the issues" of policy.

  • Gingrich says he prefers his current life on the lecture circuit to being speaker because lecturing better suits his idealistic temperament and doesn't require day-to-day detail work.

  • Clinton told the famous story of Roosevelt, on first being elected president in 1932, visiting the nonagenarian Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, prompting Holmes to observe that while Roosevelt didn't have a first-class mind, he had a first-class temperament.

  • But van Gogh's unsteady temperament comes through anyway.


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