Example Sentences

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A key to Mr. Barnes’s books is that in style as well as form he is a hybridizer, able to combine seemingly contrary temperaments into a single writing voice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

"They all had quite different temperaments for different points in the film," she noted.

From Barron's • Oct. 13, 2025

Subsequent synthetics display a range of temperaments, from Lance Henriksen’s Bishop, realistic enough to pass for human, to Michael Fassbender’s David 8, the earliest Weyland-Yutani invention to achieve a lifelike version of artificial intelligence.

From Salon • Sep. 8, 2025

“There was so much to fish because it was a big family, and big families hide a lot of stories and have so many temperaments and colors,” Delpero says.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2025

Just like that, there are new heads on new pillows—new temperaments, new dreams.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama