Temperate

//ˈtɛmpəɹət//

"Temperate" in a Sentence (23 examples)

Our country's climate is temperate.

There aren't so many places in the world that are as temperate and so often sunny as where I live.

Japan's climate is temperate.

Twenty-six species of sturgeon can be found in temperate waters of the Northern Hemisphere, two of which reside on the West Coast of North America: the green sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris) and the white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus).

Leatherbacks are found across the globe in temperate and tropical latitudes and are highly migratory.

Within national marine sanctuaries's protected waters, giant humpback whales breed and calve their young, temperate reefs flourish, and shipwrecks tell stories of our maritime history.

Having thus imparted to you my sentiments, as they have been awakened by the occasion which brings us together, I shall take my present leave; but not without resorting once more to the benign parent of the human race, in humble supplication that since he has been pleased to favour the American people, with opportunities for deliberating in perfect tranquility, and dispositions for deciding with unparalleled unanimity on a form of Government, for the security of their Union, and the advancement of their happiness; so his divine blessing may be equally conspicuous in the enlarged views, the temperate consultations, and the wise measures on which the success of this Government must depend.

In temperate countries, colds and flu rise and fall with the seasons.

The climate in this region is temperate.

This region's climate is temperate.

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temperate heat

He has a temperate demeanour

She is not hot, but temperate as the morn.

That sober freedom out of which there springs Our loyal passion for our temperate kings.

"Even in his most temperate moments he is constantly felling people with a hunting-crop."

These trees can only grow in temperate climates.

Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.

temperate in eating and drinking.

August 9, 1768, Benjamin Franklin, To John Alleyne, Esq. On Early Marriages Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.

I am a temperate man and have made it a rule not to drink before luncheon. But I was so much ashamed of my first feeling about Gorman that I thought it well to break my rule. […] I gave my vote for whisky and soda as the more thorough-going drink of the two. A cocktail is seldom more than a mouthful.

The temperate sleeps, and spirits light as air.

temperate fishes

It inflames temperance, and temp'rates wrath.

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