English vocabulary examples in context: abstain
Vocabulary in context: abstain -- Example 1.
He promised to abstain from smoking, chewing, and profanity as long as he remained a member.
Vocabulary in context: abstain -- Example 2.
There was no limit to his drinking powers, but he could abstain from drink altogether; he sometimes went too far in his pranks; but he could do without pranks altogether.
Vocabulary in context: abstain -- Example 3.
To abstain when every one else is indulging in these things, and fashion commands, is difficult indeed!
Vocabulary in context: abstain -- Example 4.
I had been accustomed, during the night, to steal a part of their store for my own consumption, but when I found that in doing this I inflicted pain on the cottagers, I abstained and satisfied myself with berries, nuts, and roots which I gathered from a neighbouring wood.
Vocabulary in context: abstain -- Example 5.
He refused to see him, as he passed through on his return from the island of Elba, and he abstained from ordering public prayers for the Emperor in his diocese during the Hundred Days.
Vocabulary in context: abstain -- Example 6.
Is there not, dear Madame, something truly evangelical in this delicacy which abstains from sermon, from moralizing, from allusions?
Vocabulary in context: abstain -- Example 7.
The Bernardines-Benedictines of this obedience fast all the year round, abstain from meat, fast in Lent and on many other days which are peculiar to them, rise from their first sleep, from one to three o'clock in the morning, to read their breviary and chant matins, sleep in all seasons between serge sheets and on straw, make no use of the bath, never light a fire, scourge themselves every Friday, observe the rule of silence, speak to each other only during the recreation hours, which are very brief, and wear drugget chemises for six months in the year, from September 14th, which is the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, until Easter.
Vocabulary in context: abstain -- Example 8.
In the meanwhile, he abstained from touching that money.
Vocabulary in context: abstain -- Example 9.
He prescribed more physical exercise as far as possible, and as far as possible less mental strain, and above all no worry--in other words, just what was as much out of Alexey Alexandrovitch's power as abstaining from breathing.
Vocabulary in context: abstain -- Example 10.
They both followed the Buddha until they reached the town and then returned in silence, for they themselves intended to abstain from on this day.
Vocabulary in context: abstain -- Example 11.
And not only did the Martians either not know of (which is incredible), or abstain from, the wheel, but in their apparatus singularly little use is made of the fixed pivot or relatively fixed pivot, with circular motions thereabout confined to one plane.
Vocabulary in context: abstain -- Example 12.
Boris, speaking with deliberation, told them in pure, correct French many interesting details about the armies and the court, carefully abstaining from expressing an opinion of his own about the facts he was recounting.
Vocabulary in context: abstain -- Example 13.
It is easy now to understand the significance of these events- if only we abstain from attributing to the activity of the mass aims that existed only in the heads of a dozen individuals- for the events and results now lie before us.
