Sentence examples for temper grew from inspiring English sources

As each race went on, Robic's temper grew shorter and occasionally exploded.

I began to drink more heavily, and on the field my list of bookings grew longer as my temper grew shorter".

But the organization's top veterinary officials sought to temper growing alarm and stressed that the bird flu outbreak did not currently pose a public health risk.

Describing his crisis at the age of eighteen, Hume later wrote to a friend, "I found a certain Boldness of Temper, growing in me, which was not enclin'd to submit to any Authority," a rebellion that led him to "seek out some new Medium, by which Truth might be establisht'".

I had a really bad temper growing up, something I worked on for years.

Tempers grew short as Davies fell to the ground with cramps.

From early morning until well after sundown, in stations and on moving trains along the 400-mile Northeast Corridor, tempers grew short, departure boards proclaimed "canceled" over and over, passengers flooded ticket windows to make alternate plans.

Tempers grow short, nerves fray, pent-up frustrations suddenly erupt.

Even in late November, Renney said, games resemble those in mid-April, when the playoffs begin and tempers grow shorter.

Consumer confidence in the United States unexpectedly deteriorated in December, while prices of single-family homes fell at almost double the expected pace in October, tempering growing optimism on the economy's recovery.

In France, I was the butt of a great many jokes about my "Jewish mother" child-rearing techniques: I worried that my 3-year-old might drown if left to wander unattended around an unfenced swimming pool; I held up countless dinner parties, letting food grow cool and tempers grow short, while I rocked and sang and soothed my un-Ferberized babies to sleep.