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

America has nothing to do but to be temperate, patient, and faithful to her ally.

From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Adams, Abigail