Example sentences for: tempo

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

  • It's fun to watch these jazzy young actors scrutinize their cards and each other and throw around their poker lingo; and the director, John Dahl ( The Last Seduction , 1994), gives the picture a jaunty tempo and a deep-toned Rembrandt look without ever calling attention to his hand.

  • Its programmer enters parameters of style and tempo.

  • In form, it's a showbizzy patter song, but because of its lightning tempo (which makes the words barely intelligible) and the steady repetition of "bitch" on the downbeat, it has the primal force of an incantation:

  • The paper reports that the ship is deployed with 250 fewer crew than it's supposed to have, with the result that flight operations cannot be sustained at the tempo commanders would like.

  • The NYT runs a separate front-page piece about the Iraq situation that notes the increasing tempo of American-British strike planning.


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