Example Sentences

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Kaplan has fasted on Yom Kippur in the past but stopped years ago after she sat next to a young undergraduate student at services who grew faint from not eating.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2023

Both Gibson and Messier conclude that when someone has trouble regulating glucose properly—or has fasted for a long time—a sugary drink or food can improve their subsequent performance on certain kinds of memory tasks.

From Scientific American • Jul. 18, 2012

Saint Gandhi has fasted 21 days without appreciable harm.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now and again the prophetic fire bursts forth in some holy man who has fasted and prayed until the veil betwixt the seen and the unseen has grown thin.

From The Secret Chamber at Chad by Everett-Green, Evelyn

He has fasted, and scourged himself, and done without sleep.

From Evangelists of Art Picture-Sermons for Children by Patrick, James