Sentences with refrain
re·frain
R r - Mrs Hardie refrained from making any comment. [VERB + from]
- ...a refrain from an old song.
- Refrain1 usually suggests the curbing of a passing impulse in keeping oneself from saying or doing something [although provoked, she refrained from answering]; abstain implies voluntary self-denial or the deliberate giving up of something [to abstain from liquor]; forbear1 suggests self-restraint manifesting a patient endurance under provocation [to forbear venting one's wrath]
- Rosa's constant refrain is that she doesn't have a life.
- I refrained from telling him what I thought.