temperate

How To Use temperate In A Sentence

• Although these vegetables adapt well to our temperate climate, they tend to crop poorly.
• With abundant rainfall and a temperate climate, crops were plentiful; citrus and olive groves abounded.
• These birds only survive in temperate latitudes.
• They whiche unto the warre have given rule, will that the menne be chosen out of temperate countries, to the intente they may have hardines, and prudence, for as muche as the hote countrey, bredes prudente men and not hardy, the colde, hardy, and not prudente. Machiavelli, Volume I
• Where the Sumerian tale presents the deluge as the work of an intemperate overlord whose attitude to humanity is far from benevolent, whose might may not be right, and offers an ethical opposition to him in figure of a merciful intercessor, the Biblical tale ultimately sanctions the genocidal destruction of most of humanity by ascribing it to a God whose wisdom, justice and mercy are presented as unquestionable. Creative Control - Part 4
• No man can be brave who considers pain the greatest evil of life; or temperate, who regards pleasure as the highest good. 
• The worm commonly known as dog heart worm, is widely dispersed and found in the tropics, subtropics and temperate zones.
• However indignant and hotheaded he might appear, his intemperateness could rapidly be defused by humor or kindness. Storyteller
• I would like your temperate drinker to pause, and reflect upon the fact, that the quantity of brandy or rum that he took at a drink, when he commenced this downhill course, has been gradually increased; so that in the second year, what had been quite sufficient to please his palate and produce all the desired effects in the first, was then insipidly small; and more so in the third year, if, mayhap, he could with any decency lay claim to the title of _temperate drinker_ so long. Select Temperance Tracts
• No one likes receiving emotional, intemperate outbursts, even from people who think they have been wrongly accused.