"temper" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- His temper has scared away potential colleagues and shortened the tenures of several assistants.
- Alder replied angrily, his temper obviously shortened by the long, cold wait.
- I could see that Shoogar's temper was shortening.
- Perhaps not immediately, but he'd seen tempers shorten.
- "You were cautioned, my young friend," came the slow, growling response that always indicated Allanon's temper was shortening.
- Finally Granny Morkie's temper, which was never particularly long, shortened to vanishing point.
- Tensions mount and tempers shorten like fuses burning in slow-motion.
- As the game tightened in the third quarter, tempers shortened.
- As he grew more weary, his temper shortened, and he complained bitterly at every halt.
- After two consecutive overcast days the grumbling begins, everyone's temper shortens, traffic cops stop giving warnings, and people aren't quite as nice to their dogs.
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