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Example sentences for: tempers

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Realism tempers the romanticism of idealists with a sense of tragedy.
The slowness of the vote count, reported Hong Kong's South China Morning Post , resulted in the tabulation of less than 2 percent of the more than 116 million votes by Tuesday night, and the Straits Times of Singapore reported that "[s]ome tempers flared over the pace of the vote count."
We have had presidents with tempers before, but have we ever had a president who is this glib?
(A sit-up , with a hyphen, exercises your abdominal muscles, but a sit-down strike tends to exercise the tempers of management.)
The LAT mildly tempers official Japanese reports that the radiation level in the nuclear facility and surrounding region has normalized with critics' fears that it is too early to tell what exactly the plant spat out.