TEMPORIZE in a Sentence

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16 example sentences for TEMPORIZE, such as:

1. An assembly of representatives chosen, pro tempore, by the people.
2. This was the reason why the temporal powers of the pope were little esteemed in Italy.
3. One is also able to see how specific acts are related to a temporal and spatial context.
4. Every sin has two punishments attached to it, one called the eternal and the other the temporal.

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 Meanings and Examples of TEMPORIZE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
temporize
 v.  act evasively in order to gain time, avoid argument, or postpone a decision
Classic Sentence:
1  But not possessing such a strong army as would have enabled them to temporize with their enemies, and consequently not having the time needed for gaining any to their side, they were undone.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI.
2  And from this time he began to seek new alliances and to temporize with France in the expedition which she was making towards the kingdom of Naples against the Spaniards who were besieging Gaeta.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII — CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQ...
3  An assembly of representatives chosen, pro tempore, by the people.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
4  The Republican Party, the Grand Old Party of Blaine and McKinley, is the agent of the Lord and of the Baptist Church in temporal affairs.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  But, temporal or spatial, the esthetic image is first luminously apprehended as selfbounded and selfcontained upon the immeasurable background of space or time which is not it.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
6  We blame the church when she is saturated with intrigues, we despise the spiritual which is harsh toward the temporal; but we everywhere honor the thoughtful man.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—FAITH, LAW
7  This was the reason why the temporal powers of the pope were little esteemed in Italy.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI — CONCERNING ECCLESIASTICAL PRINCIPALITIES
8  The shortness of his visit, the steadiness of his purpose in leaving them, originated in the same fettered inclination, the same inevitable necessity of temporizing with his mother.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
9  This was more than his life, the life of the woman he loved; this was, in case of ill fortune, a means of temporizing and obtaining good conditions.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 63 THE DROP OF WATER
10  "Maybe there won't be any war," Mrs. Tarleton temporized, her mind diverted completely from the Wilkeses' odd marriage habits.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
Example Sentence:
1  I cannot permit you to temporize any longer; I must have a definite answer today.
2  Every sin has two punishments attached to it, one called the eternal and the other the temporal.
3  By passing both laws in temporal proximity to one another, Arizona has revealed itself to have great anxiety not merely about illegal immigration in this nation, but about diversity itself.
4  The study involved taking recordings from a part of the brain called Wernicke's area, at the back of the left temporal lobe, which is involved in speech comprehension.
5  The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism—an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own.
6  One is also able to see how specific acts are related to a temporal and spatial context.