total abstainer
Example Sentences
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Sam Snead, whose fluent style has lasted longer than any other man’s in the history of the game, was reduced to putting between his legs, croquet fashion—and he was a total abstainer for years.
From Golf Digest • Mar. 31, 2020
He was a total abstainer and a nonsmoker, had no recreations except a daily hour in the gymnasium, and had taken a vow of celibacy .
From Time Magazine Archive
Several months ago white-haired George Lansbury, total abstainer, First Commissioner of Public Works, suddenly decided that it was only right and proper for women M. P.'s to have the privilege of bathing in Parliament also.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every one of the thousands of Salvationists," said General Kitching, "is a total abstainer.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
