How to Use immoderate in a Sentence

immoderate

adjective
  • Formerly, Christians were taught that greed--that is, the immoderate pursuit and love of money--was a sin.
    — Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
  • This was accentuated by their immoderate use of black, putting the accent on cut and proportion.
    — Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Her apartment is lined with charmingly immoderate stacks of books, and morning coffee steams in a Yaddo mug.
    — Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Still, abandoning my life in New York City and committing to the incalculable unknowns of being the resident baker at the South Pole was immoderate, even for me.
    — Cree Lefavour, New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Adult death is always strangely humiliating but this was something more, conceptually distressing, theoretically immoderate, elaborately unkind.
    — Joy Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025

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