Example Sentences

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“What is leaving one’s body? What is fasting? What is holding one’s breath? It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self.”

From New York Times • May 22, 2024

During fasting, your skin can easily lose moisture and lack hydration, so Dr Shah - who is fasting - advises people to use more hydrating products.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2023

Having handmade the cards, Olow said, “if someone is fasting, hopefully, their classmates will be a bit kinder to them.”

From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2023

“When the increase in blood sugar level is mild, we call this prediabetes; the threshold is fasting glucose 100 mg/dL up to 125 mg/dL,” says Silvio Inzucchi, medical director of the Yale Diabetes Center.

From Washington Post • Oct. 25, 2021

"First there is fasting, and breathing, and contemplating self," he murmured mendaciously.

From Sense from Thought Divide by Dongen, H. R. van