temper

In a sentence

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

• He lost the final round and flew into a temper, then apologized to the whole voice channel ten seconds later.

  Gaming

• The call sent the visiting coach into a temper so theatrical that the home crowd applauded instead of booing.

  Basketball

• A missed entry sent the conductor into a temper, and the string section sat frozen until he apologized after the break.

  Music

• The head chef flew into a temper when the sauce broke, and for one loud minute nobody in the kitchen looked up.

  Cooking

• The founder lost his temper at the Monday meeting over a typo, and the five-minute outburst cost him two engineers by Friday.

  Business

• The director flew into a temper over a misplaced lamp, an outburst the crew secretly filmed and later played at his farewell party.

  Movies

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