- present progressive of abstain (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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"Everybody who is abstaining in several different regions, they have to understand that we are facing something that breaks the possibility of having a world consensus," he said.
From Reuters • Mar. 3, 2023
The only known treatment, pioneered by Dicke, is abstaining from gluten.
From Slate • Apr. 22, 2015
He’ll loudly decline dried fruit and nuts left in the office because they’re too high in calories, and anytime I reach for a cookie he loudly explains why he himself is abstaining.
From Slate • Feb. 25, 2014
Germany is abstaining from outrages that would raise American feeling.
From John Redmond's Last Years by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius
As regards our relations to our fellow men, forbearance is abstaining from retaliation or revenge; patience is keeping kindliness of heart under vexatious conduct; long-suffering is continued patience.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin
