How to Use temperance in a Sentence

temperance

noun

• 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
• Stimson believed the parallel crusades for temperance and women’s suffrage would remove power from the saloons and restore it to the family home.
  — Sasha Issenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
• This year’s office Christmas parties, however, are set to do away with the booze and instead become afloat with mocktails and artisanal sodas, as bosses react to their Gen Z staffers’ new urge for temperance.
  — Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024