abstainer

Example Sentences

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One notable abstainer is Apple, which has never participated -- preferring to show off new products at its own worldwide events, with the next one taking place on Wednesday.

From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026

“For parents across America,” writer and pickup line abstainer Angie Schmitt wrote last year, “the school car line is a daily punishment.”

From Slate • Sep. 3, 2024

People want to enjoy a zero-proof cocktail — whether always, or just on occasion — with their friends, without standing out as an abstainer.

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2023

The latest abstainer is Tim Kawakami, the editor in chief of The Athletic’s San Francisco Bay Area site, who wrote that this year’s ballot will be his last.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2021

I surely am as earnest a prohibitionist and total abstainer as any woman or man in South Dakota or anywhere else.

From The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Harper, Ida Husted