be temperate
Example Sentences
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May all of your homes be temperate, and your roommates mindful of the utility bill.
From Slate • Jun. 27, 2017
“When you and your advisers are out to destroy the livelihood, welfare and families of the people that it’s my job to represent and protect, there’s little for me to be temperate about,” he wrote.
From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2016
I urge industry in its own interest to be temperate in its demands and I invite its fullest cooperation.
From Time Magazine Archive
To the New York Times, striving to be temperate, the President's proposed economies were "wholly unimpressive."
From Time Magazine Archive
"I can never climb mountains in this rarefied air," pleads one, and in most cases this is true; it is important that persons unused to the higher altitudes be temperate and discreet.
From The Book of the National Parks by Yard, Robert Sterling
