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How to use the word temper in a Sentence?

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The main problem was the story about an intruder, he was n’t truthful. If he had told the truth from the beginning and admitted that he got angry and lost his temper, he may have been better off with a plea bargain.

William Booth

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Since when do temper tantrums make you look strong? They look weak.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy becomes more engaged in meaningful dialogue, I think the speaker would more than readily accommodate him, but you can't throw these temper tantrums and expect people to work with you.

Bennie Thompson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It will dampen inflation talk, we would prefer that inflation gets tempered and the Delta variant could temper it. That's not the way we want to temper it, of course.

Brian Wenzel

Found on CNN
2 years ago

She cursed me, telling me ‘You should have stayed in North Korea. Why did you come here and bump into me?‘ it deeply hurt me. I couldn’t show my temper because I was hurt too much ... I just stood helplessly and I didn’t go to school for a week.

Choi Yeong-chun

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I would temper my expectations, and never say never, but we’ve got an opportunity to dig deeper as a group, those answers are going to come. There were decisions made back in 2012, 2013, 2014 that guide us for 12 years. That's reality. Can that change? I don’t know.

Southeastern Conference

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Recently my son and I had an argument that he chose to record, i felt extremely disrespected in that conversation and I lost my temper and I said words that are not appropriate and I am sincerely sorry to all of you. I sincerely apologize.

Kerrion Franklin

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Yesterday I put out a piece on the RPT( Republican Party of Texas) website, my chairman's Monday message, it said cool hands always prevail, because I've been in combat, and you have to temper emotions, you have to stay focused, you have to stay resolute. And people are looking for that that calm, still voice, that leadership voice, and that's what I want to try to be.

Allen West

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I will not allow this temper tantrum to distract from the important work ahead.

Ileana Garcia

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The choice is not between order and liberty. It is between liberty with order and anarchy without either. There is danger that, if the court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.

Robert H. Jackson

added by Normando
3 years ago

However, we will continue to carry out our duties as laid out in the Constitution, including providing advice and consent on nominees, asking tough questions on policy decisions, as well as actions taken at State Department, high level temper tantrums will not stop House Oversight Committee from conducting our oversight responsibilities.

Robert Menendez

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If you don’t want to be cantankerous, don’t feed your temper, or multiply incidents of anger. Suppress the first impulse to be angry, then begin to count the days on which you don’t get mad.

Marcus Aurelius

added by Normando
4 years ago

You can lose your temper, or have a bad day and commit abuse, that doesnt make you a bad person, but to intentionally torture a child, thats a different mindset.

George Harrell

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

John has strong views on things, but thats OK. I actually temper John, which is pretty amazing isnt it? i have different sides. I mean, I have John Bolton, and I have other people that are a little more dovish than him. And ultimately I make the decision.

Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I actually temper John, i have John Bolton and I have other people that are a little more dovish than John Bolton and ultimately I make the decision.

President Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

John Bolton has strong views on things but that's OK. I actually temper John Bolton, which is pretty amazing, isn't it ?

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

You violated my challenge, which is to try to form a sentence, let alone a paragraph, and not mention Donald Trump. Nobody seems capable of doing it. It seems like it's a physiological impediment for the world, what's necessary is for people to understand -- in front of everybody but especially in front of 13 - and 14-year-old girls -- that Kellyanne Conway need to control Kellyanne Conway temper, control Kellyanne Conway. Kellyanne Conway need to get over the damn 2016 election and do that because chances are -- the big chances and I believe -- that this man will be re-elected.

Kellyanne Conway

Found on CNN
5 years ago

He asked (House) Speaker (Nancy) Pelosi, 'Will you agree to my wall?' She said no. And he just got up and said, 'Then we have nothing to discuss,' and he just walked out. Again, we saw a temper tantrum because he couldn't get his way.

Chuck Schumer

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It would be a shame if the country suffered because of Trump temper tantrum, it's up to him.

Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I understand how it looks, but she escalated it and then I lost my temper at her, not at that child.

Teresa Klein

Found on CNN
5 years ago

He was unafraid to take on his party, he could put the temper in temperament, He was a brave and honest man.

Chuck Schumer

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I don't think we're going to have many consecutive opportunities on each other's serves, i think we're sort of both playing with the same type of fire. It's about who can sort of temper the other guy's better.

Milos Raonic

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We always knew T-Rex had a temper but, today he blew his top, there was an unfortunate [and rare] electrical issue with our mighty T-Rex and he is no longer. You might even say… extinct.

Zach Reynolds

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Mr. Bolton’s tendency to try to solve every geopolitical problem with the American military first is a troubling one, i hope he will temper his instinct to commit the men and women of our armed forces to conflicts around the globe, when we need to be focused on building the middle class here at home.

Chuck Schumer

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

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