INTEMPERATE in a Sentence

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So saying, he took off his cup with much gravity, at the same time shaking his head at the intemperance of the Scottish harper.

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 Meanings and Examples of INTEMPERATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
intemperate
 a.  not temperate or moderate; excessive, especially in use of alcoholic beverages
Classic Sentence:
1  But, though luxurious, the Norman nobles were not generally speaking an intemperate race.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
2  They had been married for twenty-two years and had lived happily until about two years ago when his wife began to be rather intemperate in her habits.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A PAINFUL CASE
3  Stubb was a high liver; he was somewhat intemperately fond of the whale as a flavorish thing to his palate.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
4  It leads some of the best of the critics to unfortunate silence and paralysis of effort, and others to burst into speech so passionately and intemperately as to lose listeners.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In III
5  To clear up which, I endeavoured to give some ideas of the desire of power and riches; of the terrible effects of lust, intemperance, malice, and envy.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER IV.
6  So saying, he took off his cup with much gravity, at the same time shaking his head at the intemperance of the Scottish harper.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  She accepted his frequent intemperance as part of the climate, healed him dutifully whenever he was sick and always tried to make him eat a breakfast.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
8  Spots appeared on his nose, the redness of which was evidently due to intemperance, and his mouth twitched nervously.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
Example Sentence:
1  In a temper, Tony refused to tone down his intemperate remarks.
2  Health does not consist with intemperance.