Sentence examples for try to temper from inspiring English sources

"You try to temper him," he added.

"They are going to try to temper expectations," he said.

Other parts of Dodd-Frank try to temper risk in more subtle ways.

"I try to temper myself because I'm not sure where it's going to go in two weeks," Tortorella said.

Legal measures that froze rents to try to temper the housing market only made the situation worse.

We scrupulously avoid hype and try to temper expectations – research is, after all, incremental and revolutionary breakthroughs are few and far between.

Girardi tried to temper expectations about Jeter's return.

Sometimes Williams tried to temper Maria's theatrical ambitions.

"He's back?" I asked, trying to temper my glee.

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

After losing, Anthony and the Knicks tried to temper the rivalry talk, and rightfully so.