How to Use temperance in a Sentence

temperance

noun
  • The minister preached about temperance.
  • What followed has been described as an age of neo-temperance.
    — Kate Julian, The Atlantic, 1 June 2021
  • There have been no signs of temperance by the president on the stump in recent days.
    — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2020
  • The local temperance group was thought to be behind it, but nothing could be proven.
    — Terry Shaw, Twin Cities, 17 Apr. 2024
  • So Ada’s into temperance now, which the show would like us all to think is very silly.
    — Alice Burton, Vulture, 23 June 2025
  • Some will ask why this temperance with blowing should be limited.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 27 Oct. 2024
  • The temperance movement is upturned by drinking songs and free beer passed out by the dandy minions.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • But first, let’s address why temperance matters.
    — Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Many philosophers through the ages have spoken of virtues such as temperance, courage, justice and prudence.
    — WSJ, 21 June 2019
  • After all, the Methodists were leaders in the temperance movement.
    — Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, 3 July 2018
  • The social pressure of wellness culture is its own kind of temperance movement.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Brown was a skilled public speaker who spoke about civil rights, temperance and women's suffrage.
    — Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati.com, 14 June 2019
  • Her default mode is an inviting temperance, in sorrow as well as in the previous album’s joy.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Yet the extent to which that bolstered the overall system is viewed with temperance, at least outwardly.
    — Matt Kawahara, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Barnum did this by staging temperance drama, and Keene by bringing the leg show to the middle class.
    — The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 June 2024
  • Their father had been a minister and was head of the local temperance society.
    — Howard Fishman, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The virtue of temperance has a long history in moral philosophy.
    — Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • The matter of the pastors’ Sunday best touches on questions of temperance and lust.
    — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 14 June 2019
  • For one thing, the thread connecting temperance and suffrage weaves mainly through upper-crust white women.
    — Curt Brown, Star Tribune, 1 Aug. 2020
  • Meyer’s stroke of genius was to make her lead vampire an avatar of self-sacrifice and bodily temperance.
    — Bruce Handy, Vulture, 20 May 2025
  • Grant me temperance, but not yet Drinks firms can take some comfort from China, where covid-19 fears are on the wane.
    — The Economist, 23 May 2020
  • Her father was a minister and the head of the local temperance society; her mother was a pianist.
    — Jeremy Lybarger, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Women fought for temperance laws restricting alcohol as well as the right to vote and the abolition of slavery.
    — Alicia Eler, Star Tribune, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Cultivating temperance does not erode drive.
    — Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Yet, the history of the temperance movement exposes the danger of these tactics.
    — Elizabeth Marshall / Made By History, TIME, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Back then, mince pie was the pie of choice — so beloved that when the temperance movement went after alcohol, a federal judge ruled brandy could still go into mince pie.
    — Liz Biro, Indianapolis Star, 18 Nov. 2019
  • And @thesuzeum showed her own temperance in channeling Edward Burne-Jones.
    — Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2020
  • The core of temperance is that all five virtuous behaviors need to be strengthened, but temperance cannot be viewed in isolation.
    — Mary Crossan, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Moreover, the temperance movement in the United States began decades after his death.
    — Hannah C. Griggs, The Atlantic, 27 May 2018
  • The invincibility of youth yields to the temperance and perspective of age.
    — Anna Altman, The New Republic, 17 Feb. 2021

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