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"Tempered" in a Sentence (15 examples)
Portia tempered justice with mercy.
Iron is tempered by heating and sudden cooling.
I was quick tempered when I was young.
"Short tempered as ever." He said while dodging Reika's fist.
Steel is quenched in cold water after having been tempered by heating.
On the days he doesn't take a nap, he's bad tempered.
Tom has tempered the excesses of his financial risk-taking.
Such evidence is clearly inadmissible in court as it has been tempered with.
Tom was furious, but he tempered his language because there were children present.
Shouldn't this steel be tempered?
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The Pyncheon Elm, throughout its great circumference, was all alive, and full of the morning sun and a sweet-tempered little breeze, which lingered within this verdant sphere, and set a thousand leafy tongues a-whispering all at once. This aged tree appeared to have suffered nothing from the gale.
"Not forged!" and snatching Perth's levelled iron from the crotch, Ahab held it out, exclaiming — "Look ye, Nantucketer; here in this hand I hold his death! Tempered in blood, and tempered by lightning are these barbs; and I swear to temper them triply in that hot place behind the fin, where the white whale most feels his accursed life!"
The downcast eye, the rosy blush, the retiring grace, are all proper in their season; but modesty, being the child of reason, cannot long exist with the sensibility that is not tempered by reflection.
[N]obody knows how the wind is tempered to shorn Irish lambs, and in what marvellous places they find pasture.
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