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How to use distempered in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word distempered? Here are some examples.

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At Wissett Lodge, her rented home in Suffolk, she and Duncan distempered the walls a brilliant blue, and dyed the chair-covers with coloured ink.
The bedroom walls were distempered a dark, shiny green, the curtains were green with spots on and the bedspread an uninspiring khaki.
I cannot but admire, that any should go with their distempered friends and relations to the afflicted children, to know what their distempered friends ail.
But the idea of climbing 8000 meters on a distempered weather with below-zero temperatures meant pure suicide.
The second group, mainly a distempered and impassioned crew that just so happens to include myself, extols 10,000 Hz Legend as the band's true high-water mark.
Figures were distempered on sheets of paper glued to supports which were then nailed into the panels, resorting to a technique close to illuminating.
The everyday slovenliness of Johannes Schütz's set suggests the chaos of a distempered mind, though Franz Peter David's lighting casts a lurid glow on an upstage set of crystalware.
An excited and highly distempered ideality threw a sulphureous lustre over all.
The imagination, when completely distempered, is the most incurable of all disordered faculties.
Examples from Classical Literature
Most of the houses are of distempered rose-colour at the top and moss-green at the bottom.
He fancied he was delirious, and had distempered visions of the food so long desired.
He fell in his own good opinion, at this inconsistency of his distempered fancy.
Yes, this was no dream of a distempered digestion, but sober reality.
Even the king and queen did not escape Hamlet in his distempered moments.
His attitudes, too, are those of a troubled and distempered man.
My first attachment was the morbid excess of a distempered imagination.
Or are they the inflammatory ravings of incendiaries or distempered enthusiasts?
The vision of her own distempered fancy followed her to the place where the laudanum was hidden, and vanished there.
The extravagant surmises of a distempered jealousy can never be dignified with that character.
All that I apprehend, may exist merely in my own distempered imagination.
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