abstinent
Example Sentences
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She has vowed to remain abstinent until she marries.
From BBC • May 31, 2025
To get R95 funding, they also cannot require people to be totally abstinent before being admitted.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2024
“The restaurant business tends to require a lot of face-to-face contact, and that makes those jobs harder right now, wearing masks, dealing with abstinent customers, and the risk of getting COVID,” she said.
From Washington Times • Feb. 3, 2022
Morgan recently completed a stint on a leadership team for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy and added that while abstinence is an ideal, "not every teen is going to stay abstinent."
From Seattle Times • May 4, 2013
Löwenfeld agrees with Freud and Gattel that the neurosis of anxiety tends to occur in the abstinent, careful examination showing that the abstinence is a factor in its production in both sexes.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Ellis, Havelock
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
