TEMPERANCE in a Sentence

Learn TEMPERANCE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

245 example sentences for TEMPERANCE, such as:

1. He loses his temper very easily.
2. You must learn to control your temper.
3. He tried in vain to bring his temper under control.
4. Father is in a bad temper, but let him sleep it off.
5. And now I've lost my temper and probably ruined everything.

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 Meanings and Examples of TEMPERANCE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
temperance
 n.  moderation or self-restraint, especially in eating and drinking; avoiding excesses
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The Prior had his own reasons, however, for persevering in the course of temperance which he had adopted.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  "Their singular abstemiousness and temperance," said De Bracy, forgetting the plan which promised him a Saxon bride.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
3  First they done a lecture on temperance; but they didn't make enough for them both to get drunk on.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI.
4  Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag.
5  Here is the stain on the lining caused by the explosion of a temperance beverage, an incident that occurred at Leamington.
The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In THIRD ACT
6  Her heart was too sore to care whether or not she put her father in a temper.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
7  Her temper was beginning to rise again at the thought that this rude and impertinent man had heard everything--heard things she now wished she had died before she ever uttered.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  This aroused her temper, for she cared no more about family than her father.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
9  Mist Gerald in a temper was always exciting, providing his temper was not directed at her kinky head.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
10  Frequently she flared into open wrath under his expert baiting, for she had Gerald's Irish temper along with the deceptive sweetness of face she had inherited from Ellen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
11  Heretofore she had never bothered to control her temper except in Ellen's presence.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
12  If only he would ever lose his temper too, then she would not feel at such a disadvantage.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
13  I don't think it was childish temper and I don't believe you've changed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
14  He did not speak and Dr. Meade thundered, losing his temper: "Our men have fought without shoes before and without food and won victories."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
15  And now I've lost my temper and probably ruined everything.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
16  That temper of hers will get her into trouble one of these days.
17  The child remained under the table in a temper until his father came home.
18  On that occasion there was no one on whom his temper could be worked off.
19  He tried in vain to bring his temper under control.
20  His detractors claim that his fierce temper makes him unsuitable for party leadership.
21  You must learn to control your temper.
22  He's been sent on an anger management course to help him control his temper.
23  He loses his temper very easily.
24  You can't lose your temper with everyone like that one minute, and then expect everything to be hunky dory again the next.
25  Father is in a bad temper, but let him sleep it off.
26  The high desert plains are beautiful and have a more temperate climate, but for some people, the altitude is a health problem.
27  Try to be temperate in your eating this holiday season; if you control your appetite, you won't gain too much weight.
28  No man can be brave who considers pain the greatest evil of life; or temperate, who regards pleasure as the highest good.
29  The Nile Valley keeps a temperate climate throughout the year.
30  He grew more and more bad - tempered as the afternoon wore on.