TEPID in a Sentence

Learn TEPID from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for TEPID, such as:

1. She bent her mouth to the tap and drank the tepid water.
2. During the summer, I like to take a tepid bath, not a hot one.
3. He crouched down between the sheets, glad of their tepid glow.
4. His nomination, while strongly backed by the President, has received tepid support in the Senate.

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 Meanings and Examples of TEPID
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tepid
 a.  moderately warm; lacking in emotional warmth or enthusiasm; halfhearted
Classic Sentence:
1  In the prairie heat she trudged along unchanging ways, talked about nothing to tepid people, and reflected that she might never escape from them.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
2  Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag.
3  He crouched down between the sheets, glad of their tepid glow.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence:
1  She bent her mouth to the tap and drank the tepid water.
2  His nomination, while strongly backed by the President, has received tepid support in the Senate.
3  During the summer, I like to take a tepid bath, not a hot one.
4  President Satoru Iwata said the maker of video-game machines is considering a new business model after forecasting a surprise 25 billion-yen ($240 million) annual loss because of tepid demand for the Wii U.