How to Use tepid in a Sentence

tepid

adjective

• He gave a tepid performance.
• My suggestion was given a tepid response.
• Instead, the slik, as the Dutch call the mud here, was silky and tepid.
  — Elizabeth Hewitt, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2023
• Her hands are tepid, not cold, and her skin is soft and pale.
  — Olga Tokarczuk, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
• Rozin says the system worked like a dream, but the school’s response was tepid.
  — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
• Since the news broke, the Dodgers have twice failed their fans with tepid responses.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2021
• The tepid response shouldn’t come as a surprise to Coleman.
  — al, 25 Jan. 2023
• Large, firm-leafed plants may be cleaned with a soft sponge or cloth and tepid water.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 29 Jan. 2022
• Not least in a year that’s so far seen the tepid The Acolyte and Masters of the Air aligned next to a string of sequels and reboots.
  — Geoffrey Bunting, TIME, 5 Aug. 2024
• The film opened to tepid business, but has remained a cult favorite since then.
  — Tim Gray, Variety, 26 July 2023
• Green should get off to a hot scoring start compared to his tepid start to last season.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 19 Oct. 2022
• The offers Kimbrel received as a free agent were tepid at best.
  — John Perrotto, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021
• The Kassab family blasted the city for its tepid response to the arson and theft in the downtown core on May 30.
  — oregonlive, 2 Apr. 2022
• That would follow tepid 0.3% growth in the second quarter.
  — Jenni Reid, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024
• Still, the horsepower in its three-cylinder engine amounts to a tepid 76.
  — Tom Krisher, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023
• The six-furlong sprint has drawn 10 entries, with Shaaz the tepid morning-line favorite at 7-2.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 July 2022
• Within his own party, voters have been tepid, at best, about the idea of a second term.
  — David Lautersenior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2023
• The whole thing is a classic dad scenario: big buildup, stiff commitment to the bit, tepid response.
  — Phillip MacIak, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• To date, the impact of bank-fintech partnerships have been tepid.
  — Ron Shevlin, Forbes, 17 May 2021
• There was tepid response to the 44-year-old Otzelberger’s hiring last March.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 25 Mar. 2022
• His tepid response to the poll Tuesday night leaves the door open to him holding on to the top spot for an undetermined amount of time.
  — Rachel Lerman, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Dec. 2022
• Today's Bikini Today, after a few tepid years, the bikini has the wind in its sails.
  — Manon Garrigues, Vogue, 18 June 2024
• Blashill got fairly tepid response from fans, but at least there was no booing.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 22 Dec. 2022
• Rust red, jade, moss, periwinkle, sea glass, lemonade, a tepid brown like weak coffee, the same rich sky blue of a Tiffany’s box.
  — Josh Condon, Robb Report, 6 Aug. 2022
• All my contacts in Ukraine warn that the U.S. response has been tepid, slow and insufficient.
  — Yuri Vanetik, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2022
• Return the bowl to the double-boiler if the chocolate starts to seize up, or sit the bowl in a larger bowl of tepid water to keep it fluid.
  — Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2021
• Lunch was often cans of tuna and crackers washed down with tepid water.
  — NBC News, 18 May 2021
• But the iPhone 14 Plus — a new format that has seen a tepid response from consumers — didn’t launch until the current quarter.
  — Mark Gurman, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2022
• Say goodbye to lukewarm coffee or tepid tea, and embrace every sip as it’s meant to be.
  — Samantha Booth, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2023
• Most of this putrid feature is, honestly, an inexcusable long walk to a tepid joke about a self-driving car.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024