Temperance has 3 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Health coexists with temperance. | |
| 2. | Temperance is the best physic. | |
| 3. | They joined in the temperance movement. | |
| 4. | On these occasions I have noticed such a dreamy, vacant expression in his eyes, that I might have suspected him of being addicted to the use of some narcotic, had not the temperance and cleanliness of his whole life forbidden such a notion. | |
| 5. | The temperance movement led to a national ban on alcohol sales that was in effect from 1920 to 1933. |