How to Use tepid in a Sentence

tepid

adjective
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  • He gave a tepid performance.
  • My suggestion was given a tepid response.
  • Instead, the slik, as the Dutch call the mud here, was silky and tepid.
    — Elizabeth Hewitt, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2023
  • The tepid response shouldn’t come as a surprise to Coleman.
    — al, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The film opened to tepid business, but has remained a cult favorite since then.
    — Tim Gray, Variety, 26 July 2023
  • Green should get off to a hot scoring start compared to his tepid start to last season.
    — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The Kassab family blasted the city for its tepid response to the arson and theft in the downtown core on May 30.
    — oregonlive, 2 Apr. 2022
  • Still, the horsepower in its three-cylinder engine amounts to a tepid 76.
    — Tom Krisher, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The six-furlong sprint has drawn 10 entries, with Shaaz the tepid morning-line favorite at 7-2.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 July 2022
  • Within his own party, voters have been tepid, at best, about the idea of a second term.
    — David Lautersenior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The whole thing is a classic dad scenario: big buildup, stiff commitment to the bit, tepid response.
    — Phillip MacIak, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • There was tepid response to the 44-year-old Otzelberger’s hiring last March.
    — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 25 Mar. 2022
  • His tepid response to the poll Tuesday night leaves the door open to him holding on to the top spot for an undetermined amount of time.
    — Rachel Lerman, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Blashill got fairly tepid response from fans, but at least there was no booing.
    — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Rust red, jade, moss, periwinkle, sea glass, lemonade, a tepid brown like weak coffee, the same rich sky blue of a Tiffany’s box.
    — Josh Condon, Robb Report, 6 Aug. 2022
  • All my contacts in Ukraine warn that the U.S. response has been tepid, slow and insufficient.
    — Yuri Vanetik, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2022
  • But the iPhone 14 Plus — a new format that has seen a tepid response from consumers — didn’t launch until the current quarter.
    — Mark Gurman, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2022
  • Say goodbye to lukewarm coffee or tepid tea, and embrace every sip as it’s meant to be.
    — Samantha Booth, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2023
  • Support was slightly more tepid, 55%, in the Central Valley.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The mayor’s tepid comments are barely better than his first reaction to the tragedy.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
  • Interest in this year's crop of quarterbacks was tepid at best.
    — Editors, USA TODAY, 1 May 2022
  • That would probably have been true even if the overall market for running backs was not so tepid.
    — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 8 Sep. 2023
  • His tepid response to the poll Tuesday night leaves the door open to him holding onto the top spot for an undetermined time frame.
    — Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2022
  • As news began to filter out about the deal Boston and Brooklyn had agreed to, the initial wave of reactions was tepid at best.
    — Hayden Bird, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
  • The strongest evidence of democracy’s weakness has got to be the tepid U.S. response to climate change over the last 25 years.
    — Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2022
  • That said, Biden has a tepid 65% approval rating among Democrats for handling the economy, a career low.
    — Gary Langer, ABC News, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Prices of new cars rose a tepid 0.3% in August from the prior month, after declining 0.1% in July and staying flat in June.
    — Bryan Mena, CNN, 17 Sep. 2023
  • His fans in academia, never keen on missing a lesson of the master, at times espoused a somewhat more tepid agreement.
    — Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Industry observers in Alaska give several reasons for the tepid job growth in the oil patch.
    — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2022
  • The small percentage of money from in-state donors could signal tepid support among Wyoming voters.
    — Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2022

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