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Example sentences for: abstinence

How can you use “abstinence” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

They also caught it from some abortion-rights zealots, who are suspicious of any government efforts to influence reproductive choices, and from conservatives, who think the only proper way to discourage teen pregnancy is to preach abstinence.
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Change of drinking and risky behaviors is left to the treatment program, and almost always, abstinence from alcohol is the goal of these treatment programs.
But I've practiced the critical equivalent of abstinence for many years now, and it's time to reassert what can never be forgotten: It is the right, nay the duty, of a critic to fall and fall hard.
In a press conference before angry reporters at a condom shop, they defended their stunt, saying it was meant to be "a moral lesson" and "the biggest public service announcement ever" on behalf of safe sex and abstinence.