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"Abstain" in a Sentence (17 examples)
Athletes usually abstain from smoking.
The doctor advised him to abstain from drinking.
The doctor has ordered the patient to abstain from wine.
My father tries to abstain from drinking.
I'll abstain from going out today.
I had to abstain from smoking while I was in the hospital.
True science teaches us to doubt and to abstain from ignorance.
He was told to abstain from drinking by the doctor.
If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, your church, and your king, you are conventionally held to deserve moral admiration even if you have never done a single kind or generous or useful action.
I abstain from voting.
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In order to improve his health, Rob decided to abstain from smoking.
Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt?
The Security Council […] calls upon all Governments and authorities, without prejudice to the rights, claims or positions of the parties concerned, to abstain from any hostile military action in Palestine and to that end to issue a cease-fire order to their military and paramilitary forces
… she had made Bunting abstain very early in their acquaintance. … Glad she was now that he had taken the pledge as a younger man; but for that nothing would have kept him from the drink during the bad times they had gone through.
I abstain from this vote, as I have no particular preference.
[…]forcing a small portion of the population to abstain from voting
Whether he abstain men from marying [sic].
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