abstemious

Example Sentences

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During his visit at Cluain Mhic Nóis, Artt makes few complaints about the abbot’s lax management, but everything about his abstemious manner suggests how disappointed he is.

From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2022

I could see making a meal of it some chilly, abstemious night.

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2022

Instead, there’s abstemious pots of earl grey and three sorry biscuits.

From The Guardian • Mar. 13, 2020

Together with your abstemious partner, you explore a washed-up, working-class coastal town, interrogating mostly uncoöperative residents as you piece together the broader socioeconomic context of the killing.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 17, 2019

“I should have guessed. Too opulent for your abstemious revolutionary and yourself, I take it?”

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie