tempo
Example Sentences
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Stokes asked his players to dig in, and did so himself with his own batting tempo.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2026
"If this tempo is not lost, then within a few months it will be quite realistic to reach multi-year, multibillion contracts," Triukhan wrote.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
Last month, Security Minister Dan Jarvis said: "The volume, breadth and tempo of threats against elected representatives is unprecedented."
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
Sinatra’s idea, however, was to start with love songs and put them into a swinging, danceable tempo, but at the same time to retain their intrinsic intimacy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026
Somewhere a police siren wails thinly, up and down, up and down, regular tempo, crisis under control, just like Gerhard.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Vocabulary lists containing tempo
It's About Time: Chron and Temp
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Music - Introductory
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Music - Middle School
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