Example sentences for: tempered

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

  • Tempered glass and perfluorocarbon plastics (TEFLON®) should be used whenever possible to minimize sorption and leaching of toxic substances.

  • However, these British influences have, even from the earliest days of colonial rule, always been tempered and molded to the Jamaican style.

  • This received front-page treatment in Le Monde of Paris, but the Times of London tempered the excitement with a big headline saying that the Serb army in Kosovo is "as strong as ever."

  • Though it's hard to sustain a point of view when the goal is to be best-selling and definitive, the book's reigning mood is progressive populism tempered by realistic pessimism.

  • Among its masterpieces of international renown are The Adoration of St. Vincent, a multi-panel work attributed to the 15th-century Portuguese master, Nuno Gonçalves, and The Temptation of St. Anthony, a fantastic hallucination by Hieronymus Bosch, tempered with humor and executed with mad genius.


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