Sentences with abstinence
ab·sti·nence
A a - ...six months of abstinence.
- Total abstinence.
- We spend many kilometres of the trip preoccupied with the abstinence versus condom debate.
- These days a teenage girl is as likely to be taught that abstinence is the most appropriate way of managing the complications of being.
- Penance, fasts, and abstinence, / To punish bodies for the soul's offense. - John DrydenThe abstinence from a present pleasure that offers itself is a pain, nay, oftentimes, a very great one. — John LockeComplete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. — St Augustine
- His strategy is one of abstinence and has been to reduce support for prevention like condoms.
- But the British actor thinks the abstinence makes the films even sexier.