How to Use temperance in a Sentence

temperance

noun
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  • The minister preached about temperance.
  • There have been no signs of temperance by the president on the stump in recent days.
    — Susan Page, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2020
  • 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
  • After all, the Methodists were leaders in the temperance movement.
    — Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, 3 July 2018
  • The temperance movement is upturned by drinking songs and free beer passed out by the dandy minions.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The once heavy-drinking Tsar Nicholas II had increasingly been won to the temperance cause.
    — Mark Lawrence Schrad, Time, 20 July 2021
  • What followed has been described as an age of neo-temperance.
    — Kate Julian, The Atlantic, 1 June 2021
  • The matter of the pastors’ Sunday best touches on questions of temperance and lust.
    — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 14 June 2019
  • 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
  • Many philosophers through the ages have spoken of virtues such as temperance, courage, justice and prudence.
    — WSJ, 21 June 2019
  • The original cream soda had real dairy in it and was marketed as a temperance drink on the East Coast in the late 19th century.
    — Vulture, 1 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Prohibition The backbone of the temperance movement during the late 1800s was women’s fury at the loutishness of men.
    — Allison Robicelli, Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Or look at Highland Park, which was also its own city and drew upon the [Christian] temperance movement.
    — Scott Holleran, Glendale News-Press, 9 May 2017
  • Moreover, the temperance movement in the United States began decades after his death.
    — Hannah C. Griggs, The Atlantic, 27 May 2018
  • In the United States, a wide range of groups, from Whig Party offshoots to late-19th-century temperance leagues, claimed the slogan to various ends.
    — Beverly Gage, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2016
  • And @thesuzeum showed her own temperance in channeling Edward Burne-Jones.
    — Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2020
  • The bar becomes an altar on Sundays, but there’s no preacher, so the schoolmarm provides temperance lectures from it, which the men are obliged to attend.
    — Robert Coover, The New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2016
  • The social pressure of wellness culture is its own kind of temperance movement.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • Their father had been a minister and was head of the local temperance society.
    — Howard Fishman, Rolling Stone, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The house also played a role in the county’s slave economy, the Civil War, the temperance and women’s suffrage movements, and the introduction of the telephone.
    — Frank Batavick, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 11 June 2021
  • 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
  • Her default mode is an inviting temperance, in sorrow as well as in the previous album’s joy.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 10 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • Those health risks made apple orchards a target of the temperance movement, starting in the 19th century.
    — New York Times, 2 Feb. 2021
  • The fifth examines the ruins of an old cider mill distillery and what the temperance movement in Hartford County, including Avon, looked like.
    — Courant Community, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Brown was a skilled public speaker who spoke about civil rights, temperance and women's suffrage.
    — Jessie Balmert, Cincinnati.com, 14 June 2019
  • The walls of their tasting room, known as the Speakeasy Lab, re-create the legend of the 19th-century short story written by a temperance advocate named George Cheever.
    — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Suggs worked on his temperance and self discipline while getting his mental and spiritual states into the proper space.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 3 Feb. 2024

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