Sentence examples for kind of temper from inspiring English sources

"So you have to kind of temper yourself every now and then when they bring out these brownies and cookies".

For at this juncture, with wild temperature swings and record-breaking weather becoming the norm, outright denial amounts to a kind of temper tantrum, a primitive railing against the inconvenience and indignity of elemental change.

Such ultimate reliance on the military is what keeps Turkish politics immature, as evinced by the kind of temper tantrums thrown by the president and prime minister last week.

Saddam has thrown this kind of temper tantrum before: In December 2000, he tried to impose a 50-cent per-barrel surcharge on every barrel of oil sold under the U.N. program.

What kind of temper tantrum are you looking to throw?

"The thing is, there's been so many disappointments in the past and it's kind of tempered our belief," said Charlie Yao, 26, a Vancouver resident.

It's all kind of tempered by this atmosphere in which the singer can improvise and do new and different unexpected things on the spot with other people.

Sure, the projected 50-year age difference kind of tempered the thrill of seeing Lea and Val kiss for the first time (take that, dry-humping Artem and Janel!), but the judges ate it up like an early bird special.

"Because going through this transition is stressful and also loaded with a certain kind of grief, tempers can be short," Hulstrand says.

To his credit there was no hint of the kind of loss of temper which overshadowed the 30-year-old's time in English football.

Well, maybe you shouldn't know that, let me think … I play dodgeball and I kind of have a temper in dodgeball.