Sample Sentences for
temperate
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    In the temperate zone where there is a season known as "fall" during which...  (source)
    temperate = non-extreme weather (not usually exceedingly cold or hot)
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    It is a climbing ornamental vine found in temperate latitudes, and came originally from the Orient.  (source)
    temperate = (places) lacking extreme weather
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    It was an evening in summer upon the placid and temperate planet Mars.  (source)
    temperate = having mild weather (not extreme)
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    I am both Poles and the Equator, With no Temperate Zones between.  (source)
    Temperate = lacking extremes
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    Does it make me look intemperate and unchaste?  (source)
    intemperate = given to excess
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in intemperate means not and reverses the meaning of temperate. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    The fruits eaten temperately need not make us ashamed of our appetites, nor interrupt the worthiest pursuits.†  (source)
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    And now, whetted intemperately by what he had felt, he began, at school, in that fecund romance, the geography, to breathe the mixed odors of the earth, sensing in every squat keg piled on a pier-head a treasure of golden rum, rich port, fat Burgundy; smelling the jungle growth of the tropics, the heavy odor of plantations, the salt-fish smell of harbors, voyaging in the vast, enchanting, but unperplexing world.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in intemperately means not and reverses the meaning of temperately. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    'I don't know if you have ever thought what a rare thing flame must be in the absence of man and in a temperate climate.  (source)
    temperate = mild
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    I suffered myself to use intemperate language to my wife.  (source)
    intemperate = extreme
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    Now suddenly Bobbie slipped through the railings and rushed down the bank towards Peter, so impetuously that Phyllis, following more temperately, felt certain that her sister's descent would end in the waters of the canal.†  (source)
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    He came along Cedar Street, among thunderous trucks portly with wares from all the world; came to the bronze doors of the McGurk Building and a corridor of intemperately colored terracotta, with murals of Andean Indians, pirates booming up the Spanish Main, guarded gold-trains, and the stout walls of Cartagena.†  (source)
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    Nothing I thought of saying was remotely temperate, nor would anything I said do any sort of good.†  (source)
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    Through the long night, too long, three solid hours nonstop, too long because it has to be too long, they've just survived a crisis and need to be intemperate, and too long because Lenny just can't stop, he looks up from under the proscenium arch and sees the ornamented ceiling and the gilded rows of boxes and he knows this is the temple of Casals and Heifetz and Toscanini and it gives him a mainline jolt, and too long because he's been running on scared fumes all week and he feels revived, alive, ready to wail the night away The disc jockeys were here, guys who did late-night jazz in voices of smoky innuendo.†  (source)
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