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Example sentences for "tepid"

Lexicographically close words:
teocalli; teocallis; teoria; tepee; tepees; tepidarium; tepidity; teque; tequila; ter
  1. Dissolve a third of a cake of compressed yeast in a little tepid water; take a quart of milk, fresh from the cow, or warmed to blood heat, and add to it a tablespoonful of sugar and the dissolved yeast.

  2. Dissolve the yeast cake in a little tepid water, mix as usual, make into a soft dough at night, bake for breakfast or luncheon.

  3. Half a pint of milk, half a pint of water, a pint and a half of white flour, an even teaspoonful of salt, half a yeast cake dissolved in tepid water.

  4. Three pints of flour, an even teaspoonful of salt, two cakes of compressed yeast dissolved in tepid water and enough milk to make a soft dough.

  5. Beat smooth, and when tepid add the yeast, cover and set away to rise.

  6. Dissolve the yeast cake in a little tepid water and add to the batter when lukewarm.

  7. Soak one ounce of sago, after washing it well in a pint of tepid water for two hours; then simmer it in the same water for fifteen minutes, stirring it occasionally; then sweeten and flavor it to taste, and use at once.

  8. Everything that approached, everything that touched her, continued this sensation of the morning, this sensation of a tepid bath, of a great bath of happiness wherein she plunged herself body and soul.

  9. But might not we hope for a land where Truth would reign--from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from the lakes of the frozen North to the ever-tepid waters of the sunny South?

  10. The other was that Maggie was always very tepid towards George.

  11. Janet, shocked out of her tepid virginal calm by a revelation of conjugal misery such as had never been vouchsafed to her.

  12. And Auntie Hamps herself was wont as it were to atone for it by using the still tepid water therefrom for her morning toilet instead of having truly hot water brought up from the kitchen.

  13. In obstinate ones stronger solutions may be used after the womb has been washed out by a stream of tepid water until it comes clear.

  14. The sheath may be daily washed out with tepid water, with a suds made with Castile soap, or with a weak solution of sulphate of zinc (one-half dram to a quart of water).

  15. To attain this end the following may be used: Sulphate of soda, 8 ounces; powdered ginger, half an ounce; to be mixed in 2 quarts of tepid water and given at one dose.

  16. The sulphate of soda is dissolved by stirring it up in tepid water.

  17. This Seldja-brook is a true child of the sun; cold in the morning and evening hours, its restless little heart becomes tepid at midday with the glowing beams.

  18. Who now come forth to meet the cheering ray; And feel the fragrance of the tepid morn Round their torn breasts and throbbing temples play!

  19. It sometimes happens in very dry seasons that the feathers of the young birds cannot develop naturally; a bath of tepid water employed on such an occasion by Madame * * * was so successful that I cannot do better than recommend it.

  20. A tepid bath, repeated for two or three days, is very likely to help their development.

  21. Yet it was still shadowy all about, the air being marvellously tepid and pleasant to the senses.

  22. But these people here, and the Lanskaarn, and whatever other unknown tribes live in this vast Abyss, have to get their entire living from this tepid sea.

  23. Two of the men waded through the water, tepid as new milk, to where Stern lay fast-bound, lifted him easily and carried him ashore.

  24. Vixen replied that she would very much like some tea, whereupon Miss Skipwith poured out a weak and tepid infusion, against which the girl inwardly protested.

  25. Ipecac in two quarts of tepid water, applied to the whole surface freely, under the bed clothes, so as not to expose him to the air, contributed much towards bringing on perspiration and subduing the fever, as well as allaying the nausea.

  26. Ipecac to two quarts of tepid water, applied with a sponge to the whole surface, acts like magic in yellow fever, allaying the nausea, producing free and health-restoring perspiration.

  27. Cold or Tepid Pack: in summer diarrhea of children.

  28. A remarkable uniformity of climate would prevail amid the archipelagoes of the temperate and polar oceans, where the tepid waters of equatorial currents would freely circulate.

  29. His zeal drew several severe persecutions upon him from certain tepid monks, but he found a great support in the example and advice of St. Julian, whose life he has written.

  30. He had much to suffer from certain tepid and slothful monks, but regarded himself as happy to meet with so favorable opportunities of redeeming his sins, and of exercising acts of penance, patience, meekness, and charity.

  31. We have often seen souls converted to perfection from a state of coldness, that is, from among worldlings and heathens; but have never seen any from among tepid Christians.

  32. The Malay Peninsula--that slender tongue of land which projects into the tepid seas at the extreme south of the Asiatic Continent--is but little more than a name to most dwellers in Europe.

  33. The tepid night had enveloped her body; and still under the impression of his strength she gave herself up to a momentary feeling of quietude that came about her heart as soft as the night air penetrated by the feeble clearness of the stars.

  34. Lingard took off his hat and drew in a long sigh in the tepid breeze.

  35. He swallowed great mouthfuls of tepid water which the wind drove down his throat.

  36. Mrs. Travers gasped; a splash of water flicked her over the eyes and she felt the separate drops run down her cheeks, she tasted them on her lips, tepid and bitter like tears.

  37. On deck she found a moonless night with a velvety tepid feeling in the air, and in the sky a mass of blurred starlight, like the tarnished tinsel of a worn-out, very old, very tedious firmament.

  38. If you get them in dormant condition, soak in tepid water and then give a temperature as near sixty degrees at night as possible until they start.

  39. There are some old fogy ideas about soft and tepid water, which may help confuse the beginner: they accomplish nothing more.

  40. Grim lies dozing in the tepid water, and sees the world above her indistinctly and uncertainly as through thick grass.

  41. Their frost is broken by no thaw, their tepid formalism interrupted by no disturbing enthusiasm.

  42. It is because we are habitually such tepid Christians that we are so tongue-tied in prayer.

  43. With such rough kindness as was possible to him he had washed away in tepid water the stains of blood from the breast and face of the poor gladiator, and had bandaged the deep wounds in his breast.

  44. They could only get him some black bread, at which his stomach revolted, but he drank a mouthful or two of tepid water.

  45. Our love-making had much of the tepid smoothness of the lagoons.

  46. So far as the Kinghamstead Division was concerned it was a depressed and tepid battle.

  47. This is tepid compared with what you'll get down there.

  48. So she found him in the hall, holding a cup of tepid coffee.

  49. The children enjoy recognising various flavours, and learn, after each test, to fill a glass with tepid water, and carefully rinse their months.

  50. Hence, I have the child wash his hands carefully with soap, in a little basin; and in another basin I have him rinse them in a bath of tepid water.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tepid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    cold; cool; equatorial; genial; indifferent; lackadaisical; listless; lukewarm; mild; neuter; neutral; perfunctory; subtropical; summery; sunny; sunshiny; temperate; tepid; thermal; tropical; unfrozen; warm


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    tepid bath; tepid water