Sample Sentences for
tepid
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    Her tepid response to the promotion surprised everyone.
    tepid = lacking enthusiasm
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    His face splashed into shallow tepid water, which gurgled around him and ran up his nose.  (source)
    tepid = slightly warm
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    The soup was tepid, and you were lucky if there was a limp potato floating in it.  (source)
    tepid = lukewarm
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    When he was in the pint-sized bath, Liesel listened at the washroom door, imagining the tepid water turning to steam as it warmed his iceberg body.  (source)
    tepid = slightly warm
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    The small group on the right erupted in wild cheering, while the larger audience on the left applauded tepidly.†  (source)
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    Putting the cocoon in a cool place, a dark place, but with water, so she wasn't dry; no, not just water, but water mixed with the sap of a certain tree, and kept tepid so that certain reactions could take place in the cocoon.  (source)
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    "I love the party," he answered, tepidly.†  (source)
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    Specifically, the verb had been accused of being so tepid and prim that it failed to do justice to the labors of the men in the room.  (source)
    tepid = lacking energy
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    She lay curled in a pale ball in the corner, one arm tepidly fingering the surface.†  (source)
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    I sat in the shadow of the dark-green café awning, staring down the length of the Rue des Francs Bourgeois, the tepid sun of a Parisian autumn warming the side of my face.  (source)
    tepid = slightly warm
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    My smile was tepid and I began walking again, thoroughly bothered that he followed alongside.†  (source)
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    Lettie looked away, embarrassed, then managed a tepid "Yes, yes I did."†  (source)
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    The damp logs in the fireplace make the house smoky and give off a tepid heat.†  (source)
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