Abstains in a Sentence
  • From all this a man is delivered who abstains from judging one state to be preferable to another.
  • The Saxon Confession of Wittenberg, June 1551, while protesting against the same errors, equally abstains from trying to define narrowly how Christ is present in the sacrament.
  • His model was Xenophon, whom he has imitated with a tolerable measure of success; he abstains from an excessive use of simile and metaphor, and his style is concise and simple.
  • George Eliot Blessed is the person who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.