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How to use the word tempers in a Sentence?

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Additional funding will tamp down tempers and make it easier for additional water users to participate, that is key.

Michael Cohen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our tempers get a little bit ahead of us at times.

Joe Manchin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’ve been a player, so I know that during a game tempers can flare and situations occur when you get angry, it was good to see Romelu so concentrated and focused. Ibra has the determination of a winner, a warrior, and I think Romelu is growing in that aspect. I can only be happy to see him fired up.

Antonio Conte

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

John's very good. He has strong views on things which is OK. I'm the one who tempers him, which is OK. I have John Bolton and I have people who are a little more dovish than him.

Donald Trump

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Today, the news is fresh and society's anger and disgust is at a high, over the course of the next several months, after tempers cool, I expect that the public will view this case more analytically than emotionally, and realize that a federal state prison sentence on a first-time white-collar offense, under these facts, with these parents, might be a bit too punitive.

Lou Shapiro

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Last week, I returned to the bakery at 1030, 11 at night as usual and discovered that Jerome had set up a bar of sorts with wine and beer, and all his homeless friends in the oven room. I told him this was not part of the deal, tempers rose and he started insulting me, so I told him to pack his bags and go.

Michel Flamant

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I don't think it tempers the tone of the debate, we are going to have a debate on a wide range of issues. There will certainly be a lot of discussion, I am, about foreign policy, ISIS and how we defeat terrorism.

Jeff Weaver

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.

Horace Bushnell

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.

Firmianus Lactantius

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

Frank Moore Colby

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The school of suffering tempers the spirit, the arena of combat strengthens the soul. (El Filibusterismo)

Dr. Jose P. Rizal

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14 years ago

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