tempering

How To Use tempering In A Sentence

• Young keeps a level tone throughout, tempering the tale of depredation with a dry wit.
• It decreases hardenability but sustains hardness during tempering.
• Once the tempering is sizzling, add the yogurt mixture and bring to boil. Archive 2005-03-01
• Its excellent toughness is due to a fine-grained structure of tough nickel-ferrite devoid of embrittling carbide networks, which are taken into solution during tempering at 570°C to form stable austenite islands.
• Zegarnald's " tempering " had been a cruel and rocky road for R'shiel and she was a long way from the end. TREASON KEEP
• Despite spots of tempering demand, global growth is accelerating and the US economy remains desperately overheated.
• Gothic romance: "Now the co-presence of something regular, something to which the mind has been accustomed in various moods and in a less excited state, cannot but have great efficacy in tempering and restraining the passion by an intertexture of ordinary feeling, and of feeling not strictly and necessarily connected with the passion" (609). Gothic Visions, Romantic Acoustics
• It infuses his writing, tempering his cleverness with a good measure of sarcastic honesty.
• This is called tempering the eggs and it prevents them from curdling when added to the pudding. NY Daily News
• The virtue of justice comes wrapped in other tempering traits: gratitude, liberality, affability, and mercy.