Tempers Sentence Examples

When the first two tries proved unsuccessful, tempers frayed even more.

Play acting and bad tempers rose in succession, producing a travesty from what should have been a fine contest.

As the tempers grow frail, a war might break out; and both countries have nuclear capability.

Hormones are raging, and tempers can easily flare.

Her words were a bucket of water on a fire, so quickly they extinguished the blazing tempers.

His great difficulty lay in managing his colleagues, who were, especially Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams, able men of strong wills and jarring tempers.

There are protests and tempers flares into a startling climax with Whitaker shooting the prisoner.

All of these factors can result in frayed tempers from time to time.

But God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

Even if hurtful and spiteful things may have been said, tempers may calm and talking may become an option once more.

If you've ever worked in a kitchen, you know all about chefs' tempers and if you've ever watched Hell's Kitchen or Kitchen Nightmares you know Chef Ramsay's temper is probably among the worst.

Changing the situation may restore tempers more readily than a spell of reflection.

Parents can teach children nonviolence by controlling their own tempers.

This brings out the garlic flavor but tempers it with the sweetness of the sweated onion.

First the chi energy falls from the heavens and condenses into water, which nourishes the wood that feeds the fire that tempers the earth and forms metal, which in turn draws water.

People with red hair are assumed to have bold personalities and short tempers, and they are frequently thought to be adventurous, unafraid, and mischievous.

While tempers might flair as each of you bring up sensitive material, the counselor will help both of you stay on track to identify the reasons why your marriage is suffering.

They are also quick to lose their tempers and are often selfish and careless.

Rather than giving a person specific characteristics, the five elements show what drives and tempers a person.

Although patience is a virtue, it's hard to keep when you're dealing with the demands of children and their tempers.

Some groups objected to the overt sexuality in that video, and tempers flared again when a barely legal Spears posed in bra and panties on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine in the mid 1990s.

Cooped up in small quarters for weeks at a time, tempers flare often.

By Sunday, tempers had subsided and five sessions were attempted.

The peacemaker of the brothers, Andre instinctively used his gift of mind control to counter the tempers of his fiery brothers.

The ocean tempers the climate considerably on the seaboard.

About New York City, and on Long Island, the ocean softens the rigours of winter, and through the influence of cold surface waters off the coast, tempers the heat of summer.

The proximity of Lake Michigan cools the atmosphere in summer and tempers the cold in winter.

It took the spouses five years to discover that their tastes were divergent and their tempers incompatible.

The Ozark uplift tempers very agreeably the summers in the south, but does not affect the climate of the state as a whole.