Example Sentences

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But the way he tepidly bit into the sandwich and talked about it as a “product” struck a nerve.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

“When legacy auto does occasionally reach out, they tepidly discuss implementing FSD for a tiny program in five years with unworkable requirements for Tesla, so pointless.”

From Barron's • Nov. 25, 2025

We activated his Instagram account and filled it with tepidly race-oriented stories and throwback photos of Watson and his family.

From Slate • Dec. 12, 2024

The voters she had tepidly won over expressed their doubts.

From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2024

She gloried in the off-beat dryness of Michelle Obama’s humor, the confidence in her long-limbed carriage, and then she mourned when Michelle Obama was clamped, flattened, made to sound tepidly wholesome in interviews.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie