Words similar to refrain

Example sentences for: refrain

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

"Lou Bega" replaces "Monica" with "Hanukkah" in his famous refrain, "A little bit of Monica in my life."
In passing, we cannot refrain from reiterating our perennial complaint about the typography of the newer dictionaries: although the body text is a paragon of clarity, the headwords are set in bold sans-serif type, which makes the characters of some words indistinguishable.
The salient questions, outlined above, are more relative and dynamic: whether Democratic promises to refrain from spending the surplus are less trustworthy than Republican promises to match tax cuts with spending cuts, and which hypothetical error--excessive spending or excessive tax cuts--would be harder to reverse.
Chatterbox will refrain from endorsing any of these three hypotheses-- forced smile , susceptibility to heart attack , falsity --to explain George W.'s smirk.
Today's CIA people are not wine snobs--in fact, many of them prefer beer, while others refrain from even coffee, as befits good Mormons.