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less heat (or enthusiasm) than might be expected- His arguments that I did not follow the chain of command were a bit tepid after that.Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
- Hizdahr, of the tepid kisses.George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
- Where did you get the notion—what made you think you could serve me this tepid bilge with even a glimmer of hope I would drink it?Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
- His face splashed into shallow tepid water, which gurgled around him and ran up his nose.Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
- Her handmaids filled the tub with tepid water that stank of sulfur, sweetening it with jars of bitter oil and handfuls of crushed mint leaves.George R.R. Martin -- A Game of Thrones
- It was to be worse than jail, even; the tepid waters of Cordelia Street were to close over him finally and forever.Willa Cather -- Paul's Case
- After the first shock of cold had passed and he came back to the surface the water seemed tepid.Albert Camus -- The Plague
- In the tepid wind they felt the plague.Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
- And then we fought, my dad and I, while we crunched burnt toast and swigged tepid tea.David Almond -- Skellig
- Faced with trouble at home and pressure from abroad, P. W. Botha offered a tepid, halfway measure.Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
- The water was crystal clear and warm as a tepid bath.James Vance Marshall -- Walkabout
- It hadn't given him much pleasure to settle for tepid water after a long day on the road.Nora Roberts -- Summer Pleasures
- It was tepid, only faintly effervescent, delicious.Cormac McCarthy -- All the Pretty Horses
- The small group on the right erupted in wild cheering, while the larger audience on the left applauded tepidly.Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
- In the prairie heat she trudged along unchanging ways, talked about nothing to tepid people, and reflected that she might never escape from them.Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
- Simon poured a glass full of the tepid liquid and brought it to Maia.Cassandra Clare -- City of Ashes
- Heavy thunderstorms rolled into Atlanta early in the week and hovered overhead, soaking the field into a tepid mush, like a cotton mop dunked in a bucket.Warren St. John -- Outcasts United
- The shock experienced by John Adams on his first arrival in France was tepid compared to that of his wife.David McCullough -- John Adams
- The damp logs in the fireplace make the house smoky and give off a tepid heat.Christina Baker Kline -- Orphan Train
- Before dialing, he found it all too easy to imagine that she'd answer with only tepid enthusiasm.Nicholas Sparks -- The Longest Ride
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