Example sentences for: temperance

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

  • Her Camille is like a steely, demented temperance activist who keeps charging into otherwise relaxed settings and throwing them into chaos.

  • *temperance hotel, one which professes to supply no alcoholic liquors; temperance movement, a political and not always temperate agitation for the restriction or abolition of the use of alcoholic liquors

  • The left wall is allegorical, devoted to the bankers’ widely acknowledged virtues, Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, and Temperance, while religious themes invoke their piety on the other walls.

  • The Bahamian islands (where the temperance crusade never had much chance) were perfectly placed to help thirsty Americans.

  • The Gothic sculpture shows the doge kneeling before St. Mark’s lion, flanked by Prudence above Temperance in niches on the left, and Fortitude above Charity on the right.


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