Sentence examples for temper it from inspiring English sources

You can't control your temper – it just happens.

"We're trying to temper it a bit," he said.

The idea was to give Islam an official voice, and to temper it by offering recognition.

Remove a small ladleful of the soup, and whisk it into the egg to temper it.

Although Girardi has a temper, it is rare for him to resort to vulgarity.

Some come to feed his passion for overhauling the tax code, others to temper it.

Whisking, pour 1⁄2 cup fricassee sauce, slowly, into the yolk-cream mixture to temper it.

But rather than stop the practice, they said, they prefer to temper it.

Bernie still had the passion, but he was learning to temper it with pragmatic politics.

"His people talk about he had a temper ― it was passionate, that's certainly the case," he said.

Okay, let's acknowledge that this was not Serena's greatest moment, that she lost her temper -- it was match point in the semi-finals, after all -- and became both unhinged and enraged.