Sentence example with the word 'abstain'

abstain

abnegate, cop out, do without, evade the issue, hold aloof from, keep back, let go by, pass up, reject, sit it out, stand neuter, withhold

Definition v. refrain from voting

Last update: November 1, 2015


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Members were also instructed to completely abstain from all drugs.   [verb]

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Because I cannot abstain from eating meat, I would not make a good vegetarian.   [verb]

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The young man would not reform his habits, or abstain from dangerous intrigues.   [Please select]

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He has been adviced to abstain from smoking.   [verb]

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I do admire the way you abstain from filling up with touches that mean nothing.   [Please select]

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The effort that you give without cessation I simply abstain from giving.   [Please select]

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Marie abstained from commenting on this remark, and Friedrich was silent and comfortable.   [Please select]

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At present I have most carefully abstained from talking with her on the subject.   [Please select]

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We abstain from entering on details of the battle.   [Please select]

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If only they might abstain from the last, worst crime of desecrating his image.   [verb]

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Nebenchari, the oculist, continued to attend the queen, but so carefully abstained from all intercourse with the Persians, that he became a proverb among them for his gloomy, silent ways.   [verb]

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