Sentence examples for temper me from inspiring English sources

It has never gotten out of control, because my friends, family, and colleagues temper me.

He has a great way of tempering me.

It lasted for a few years and tempered me a bit - which was probably a good thing.

Did you think if you exposed me to betrayal, that you were tempering me to be able to face the realities of life?" My father's face reddened, and my mother began to cry.

My mother never lost her temper with me or swore in front of me.

Nor rarely lost his temper with me, not in that early time.

""I can imagine Elton losing his temper with me and Pete in the studio," Farley says.

Coach Lombardi, with his Mount Vesuvius temper, asked me why I fouled up every time I ran to the left and was successful every time I ran to the right.

"I've got a terrible temper on me now," he admits in a rare show of candour, offering a glimpse of the darkness behind the looking glass.

I loved my father very much and while his temper pained me greatly, there was so much about him that was loving, wise and witty.

In 2011, when fellow dissidents criticized him for quickly concluding that the government was not to blame in the death of a village leader, I implored him: "Can you just not say anything?" That was the only time he lost his temper with me.