Sentence examples similar to a tempered accent from inspiring English sources

A White House spokesman offered a tempered reaction.

He has a tempered admiration for the profit system.

She closes with a joke, albeit a tempered one.

A trace of an accent, perhaps.

Western instruments – trumpets and saxophones, electric keyboards and bass guitars – are played with a different accent, generated by tuning (some Ethiopian music also makes use of non-tempered scales) and timing.

A Midwestern accent?

A German accent?

She has a German accent.

With a German accent.

A British accent.

"That's a Queens accent".