Example sentences for: temperamental

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

  • In light of Mr. McCain's record and reputation in Arizona [as temperamental], one must ask how effective a Lone Ranger like him would be in the White House."

  • Of even greater concern to the Secret Service were the times the temperamental Lewinsky spent alone with the president.

  • Associations with other disorders including, bipolar disorder [ 49 ] , alcoholism [ 50 ] and temperamental dimensions [ 51 ] have been found.

  • I see the rather boring point about using alumni to cover both men and women, and I quite agree that the use of relatively newer and less widely used terms like authoress, aviatrix , and poetess seems to be a deliberate, unwarranted attempt to identify someone as a female; but a graduate of the feminine gender is a `woman graduate' = alumna , the `first woman dancer in a ballet company' is a prima ballerina (I've never heard of a “prime ballerino”), and a `woman opera star' is a diva or prima donna . I hesitate to point out that we use prima donna of men, too, because my critics will say that they disapprove of the term's second life as designating a “temperamental person of either sex.

  • Other distinctions visible today point up temperamental differences between the two men.


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