INTEMPERATE in a Sentence
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10 example sentences for INTEMPERATE, such as:
1. Health does not consist with intemperance.
2. In a temper, Tony refused to tone down his intemperate remarks.
3. But, though luxurious, the Norman nobles were not generally speaking an intemperate race.
4. Spots appeared on his nose, the redness of which was evidently due to intemperance, and his mouth twitched nervously.
5. So saying, he took off his cup with much gravity, at the same time shaking his head at the intemperance of the Scottish harper.
2. In a temper, Tony refused to tone down his intemperate remarks.
3. But, though luxurious, the Norman nobles were not generally speaking an intemperate race.
4. Spots appeared on his nose, the redness of which was evidently due to intemperance, and his mouth twitched nervously.
5. 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
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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.
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.
3 Stubb was a high liver; he was somewhat intemperately fond of the whale as a flavorish thing to his palate.
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.
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.
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.
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.
8 Spots appeared on his nose, the redness of which was evidently due to intemperance, and his mouth twitched nervously.
Example Sentence:
1 In a temper, Tony refused to tone down his intemperate remarks.
2 Health does not consist with intemperance.