abstinence
Example Sentences
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The household was conservative, Presbyterian and promoted abstinence.
From Los Angeles Times
In the lived reality of an individual family’s home, she said, “we can’t just teach abstinence.”
From Los Angeles Times
He favours abstinence treatment programmes, when drug users go "cold turkey".
From BBC
They are concerned that encouraging abstinence from particular foods could trigger binge eating and extreme dieting to compensate.
From Salon
That’s not to suggest that abstinence alone has turned Team USA into champions.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
