Example Sentences
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One reason the stock market has performed so much better in recent years is that investors weren’t being temped by yields in the bond market, which have been lousy.
From MarketWatch ● May 22, 2026
Schneider had temped all of these great songs into the picture, but hadn’t licensed any of them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2019
DiGregorio took the bag and headed for FultonFishMarket.com’s receiving station, where the fish would be scanned, weighed, temped, assigned a bar code, and Cryovac-sealed.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 1, 2019
Ron: I temped for a bunch of years, that was my thing, that was my day job before doing “Office Space.”
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2019
She asked that I remind her to bring along a young blonde who temped at the office to be in the throng the next day.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
