Sentence examples for was temperate from inspiring English sources
adjective
Moderate; not excessive
He was temperate in his physical needs, unostentatious and not personally corruptible.
Mr. Garchik played fast and exact phrases, finding strange routes through familiar chord changes and leaving a lot of empty space; he was temperate, building intensity without shouting.
The Antarctic climate of the early Eocene was temperate by today's standards.
During the study period the climate was temperate, with a mean air temperature of 18.6°C and a relative humidity of 58.8%, with little rain or wind.
Phage vB_SepiS-phiIPLA5 (hereafter phi-IPLA5) behaved as a virulent phage, probably derived from vB_SepiS-phiIPLA6, while vB_SepiS-phiIPLA7 (phi-IPLA7) was temperate.
Although a large land surface emerged between Taiwan and the mainland with sea level retreat, it is supposed that the flora covering this area was temperate deciduous broad-leaved forest and steppe rather than evergreen broad-leaved forest during the glaciations [ 44].
Switchgrass and miscanthus are temperate.
They are temperate and central.
But the Azores are temperate.
The weather is temperate all year.
The climate is temperate and marked by four distinct seasons.
