abstinent

Example Sentences

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To get R95 funding, they also cannot require people to be totally abstinent before being admitted.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2024

He said he had gone a year without drinking and pledged to "remain abstinent to offer the greatest chance for my own health to continue to improve".

From BBC • May 24, 2023

“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

Indeed, it's unrealistic to expect people to be abstinent and not go on dates and try to find connection as we find ourselves nine months into quarantine.

From Salon • Dec. 17, 2020

This made me therefore abstinent in that kinde; yet by my troth, I think I shall not scape.

From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by Donne, John