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Example sentences for "tempering"

Lexicographically close words:
temperate; temperately; temperature; temperatures; tempered; tempers; tempest; tempestas; tempestate; tempestes
  1. So Hymettus' wax “Yields to the heat, when tempering thumbs it mould “In various forms; and fit for future use.

  2. I know thee, who hast kept my path, and made Light for me in the darkness, tempering sorrow So that it reached me like a solemn joy; It were too strange that I should doubt thy love.

  3. Usually the clay has been very fine grained, and when used without coarse tempering the vessels have an extremely even and often a conchoidal fracture.

  4. In drying and burning, these vessels were liable to crack and fall to pieces; but I see no reason why, with the use of proper tempering materials, this natural paste might not be successfully employed.

  5. The materials used in tempering do not often come into notice.

  6. A large percentage of rather coarse sand is found in the more roughly finished coil-made ware, but vessels intended for smooth finish have little perceptible tempering material.

  7. They are very rudely made and clumsy and are but slightly baked, and on account of the omission of proper tempering material are extremely brittle.

  8. This I have taken without tempering and have made imitations of the handsome vases whose remnants I could pick up on all sides.

  9. He engaged sword-smiths, whom he kept perpetually tempering steel, and did not hesitate even to forge blades with his own hands.

  10. In the domain of arts, the most remarkable industrial achievement of the era was the progress made in tempering sword-blades.

  11. The main point to be observed in tempering a tool is to have it as hard as possible without danger of its being broken while in use.

  12. To avoid cracking in tempering a small hole should be drilled through the side near the bottom of the larger hole.

  13. Nor is it less desirable for the purpose of counterbalancing and tempering in his own mind that ambition with which spiritual power is as apt to be tainted as any other species of power which men covet or possess.

  14. The day was fine and springlike, a slight breeze tempering the otherwise warm rays of the sun.

  15. The morning broke without a cloud visible in the heavens, while a cool breeze was wafted over the course, tempering the increasing rays of the sun.

  16. The car brings the cannon to the edge of the ditch, and a steam crane performs the operation of tempering with as much ease as we would temper a knife blade.

  17. The tempering pit for the plates consists of an excavation of convenient size, in the center of which is placed a tank containing 180 tons of oil.

  18. The process of tempering the gun-tubes was also witnessed by the Board.

  19. The machine-made plastic bricks are made of tempered clay, but generally the tempering and working of the clay are effected by the use of machinery, especially when the harder clays and shales are used.

  20. Now was that blessed mirror enjoying alone its own word,[1] and I was tasting mine, tempering the bitter with the sweet.

  21. And o'er what seemed the head a cloud-like crape Was bent, a dun and faint ethereal gloom Tempering the light.

  22. But it must be remembered that this proposition like every other wants tempering with a slight infusion of its direct opposite.

  23. And that the tempering or softning of it arises from the proportionate or smaller parcels of it left within those pores.

  24. The results are so much like those of tempering that he calls his process tempering by compression.

  25. He was a Norman by birth, and had learnt the tempering of steel in Germany.

  26. Much influence in tempering the cold of winter is ascribed also to the Japan Current, mentioned under a former head.

  27. And now the little craft, free upon the wave, increased her speed as her topsails spread out, and glided swiftly seaward, heaven tempering the winds to her well-worn sails.

  28. The Son of Man or Soul of the World, enters into the Darkness, becomes its captive, to end by tempering and softening its savage nature.

  29. Male and Female mutually tempering each other are Benignity and Severity, 768-l.

  30. Tradition says that it was the practice to mingle some blood in wetting and tempering the clay.

  31. The women, instead of tempering the animosities of the time, blew up the flame of discord.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tempering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abatement; ability; alleviation; arteriosclerosis; background; calming; capability; competence; condition; cushioning; dash; deadening; development; diminishing; diminution; dulling; easing; experience; extenuating; fitness; fortification; hardening; hint; infusion; inkling; intimation; leniency; lessening; lightening; loosening; lulling; mastery; maturation; maturity; mitigating; mitigation; modification; modulation; pacification; petrification; practice; preparedness; proficiency; qualification; readiness; reducing; reduction; refreshment; reinforcement; relaxation; relaxing; remission; sagacity; sauce; sclerosis; seasoning; setting; shade; slackening; smack; softening; solidification; soothing; sophistication; soupcon; spice; sprinkling; strengthening; subduing; suggestion; suitability; suspicion; taint; temper; tempering; thought; tincture; tinge; tint; touch; trace; trim; vestige