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Example sentences for: refrained

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

Islam has refrained from such an expedient.
I therefore refrained from handing him a potentially demeaning tip but was still left with the feeling that I should do something.
This work , it cannot be refrained from being pointed out, has as its chief topic that exercise that in our own great palmy day was considered least worthy of writerly elucidation.
On the other hand, perhaps the author deliberately refrained from using this title, since he is not a professional lexicographer and his “dictionary’ has every mark of an amateurish piece of work.
By threatening to blackmail Jones, the president's lawyer managed to make his client look guilty as hell, enrage the feminists who had refrained from criticizing Clinton until then, and incite editorial boards around the country, while doing nothing to bring Jones' lawyers back to the settlement table.