Sentences with abstain
ab·stain
A a - Abstain from sex or use condoms. [VERB + from]
- Three Conservative MPs abstained in the vote. [VERB]
- A couple of weeks later she returns home from hospital with a half-shaved head and instructions to abstain from sneezing.
- Parents would like their kids to abstain but the reality is a lot won't, and if all we're doing is giving an abstinence message.
- He abstained from alcohol
- To abstain from smoking
- Caroline MARCUS Media personality Sarah Wilson is encouraging women to abstain from alcohol for a month to see how much it had become a crutch in their.
- Very well then, let a good Muslim abstain rigorously from all these.
- To abstain from eating meat.
- A referendum in which two delegates abstained.