phlegmatic

In a sentence

Six example sentences with phlegmatic, each labelled with its topic.

• The phlegmatic tutor answered every objection in the same level tone, whether the class agreed or argued for an hour.

  Philosophy

• The phlegmatic ranger watched the storm take the roof off the visitor center and simply reached for the radio.

  Environment

• The desk kept its most phlegmatic trader on duty during crashes, since a steady voice settled nervous clients quickly.

  Finance

• The phlegmatic point guard never changes expression, whether he has just hit a game winner or thrown the ball away.

  Basketball

• A phlegmatic surgeon is worth having in the room, since a calm voice keeps the whole team steady when the monitors alarm.

  Medicine

• The phlegmatic press secretary took forty hostile questions in the same flat tone and never once raised her voice.

  Politics

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More Literary words

• obfuscate
• sedulous
• preternatural
• eleemosynary
• vitiate
• solicitous
• taciturn
• punctilious
• expatiate
• beatific
• descry
• palliate