sweet-tempered
Example Sentences
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It takes a lot for sweet-tempered 28-year-old Nick Darnell to transform himself into Christmas’ most sought-after sourpuss.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 25, 2025
Tour de France organizers confirmed the death Thursday in a tribute to the sweet-tempered rider known as much for his close finishes as his victories.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 25, 2022
Elizabeth, though, lives with her sweet-tempered husband Stephen, who suffers from mild but increasing dementia.
From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2021
What he has made instead, with a sure sense for composition and color, is a sweet-tempered tone poem for the apocalypse.
From New York Times • Sep. 3, 2021
Her grandmother had taught Luna, when she was a little girl with scabby knees and matted hair, how a caterpillar lives, growing big and fat and sweet-tempered, until it forms a chrysalis.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
