Appearance
Use device theme  
Dark theme
Light theme

How to use phlegmatic in a sentence

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

Sentence Examples
Sanguine relates to air, choleric to fire, melancholy to earth and phlegmatic to water.
Spanish medical knowledge of the age, still heavily based on Galen and scholasticism, assumed that light-skinned men were colder and phlegmatic.
It's almost unbelievably fitting that these supremely phlegmatic men live in Spitalfields.
British governments maintained their phlegmatic calm and resisted provocation.
If we are as phlegmatic as we like to believe would we revel so conspicuously in our tragedy?
But not for Zander, an impressively phlegmatic young character who just takes that kind of publicity in his stride.
Macha is 145 pounds of phlegmatic composure, a St. Bernard who can't help but look dignified and profound, even when she is waiting for a treat.
Yet even his phlegmatic character would have been bewildered by the mountain of a task which he had roped himself into.
But while, to the outside world, he appeared as phlegmatic and calmly in control as ever, behind the scenes it was a different story.
The fact that they did so without any great fuss and noise seems to me to be a tribute to the phlegmatic Scottish character and should not be seen as a psychological fault.
Yet we still say a person is choleric or phlegmatic, in good or bad temper.
This view seems to extend, regrettably, to infant mortality and an evidently somewhat phlegmatic attitude to the ease of a replacement pregnancy.
Someone who is phlegmatic will be rather thin and limp with a pale complexion.
A phlegmatic temperament corresponds to a fatty body and cold skin with too little hair.
The character of the Persian Longhair is often being described as somewhat phlegmatic and very modest.
In the fall of 2004, the Libertines split up and the elegant and phlegmatic song writer Carl Bârat started working on his new project.
The masculine heroes are phlegmatic, resourceful and stoical.
He is also phlegmatic on the subject of his dealings with Hollywood.
It becomes even more acute when viewed through the eyes of phlegmatic observers whose upper lips have been conditioned to stiffness from their earliest years!
He is undoubtedly one of the most phlegmatic sportsmen in the world.
Show More Sentences
Examples from Classical Literature
The phlegmatic Englishman stamps and gesticulates with all the energy of a madman.
Then we beheld a spectacle calculated to thrill the most phlegmatic fisherman.
He was a man of rather phlegmatic and unimpressionable temperament, but thoroughly honourable and trustworthy.
This phlegmatic animal had been enjoying himself for the last half hour.
Within a few hours, their phlegmatic blandness had begun to pass.
Some are born phlegmatic, some are passionate and hot-blooded.
Where and how did we get the idea that the Germans are a stolid, phlegmatic race?
They were a phlegmatic race, placid, unimaginative, reposeful.
The Duke was a ton of a little man with the phlegmatic Dutch face.
The constables were fat, phlegmatic, and anything but heroic.
He was a phlegmatic, heavy Dutchman, and seemed decent enough.
Quincey Morris was phlegmatic in the way of a man who accepts all things, and accepts them in the spirit of cool bravery, with hazard of all he has at stake.
Find more words!
Use * for blank tiles (max 2) Advanced Search Advanced Search
Use * for blank spaces Advanced Search
Advanced Word Finder

See Also

Nearby Words
10-letter Words Starting With
Find Sentences
go
Word Tools Finders & Helpers Apps More Synonyms
Copyright WordHippo © 2024