Words similar to refrained

Example sentences for: refrained

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

It said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon had made only "vague declarations condemning genocide wherever it may be" and that Sharon had refrained from mentioning the Serbs, "as though both sides were massacring each other."
But at least, said the Guardian , Gingrich has refrained from taking the parrot's name in vain.
Indeed, as recently as November, I refrained from this course only at the eleventh hour.
As Leonard Cole, author of The Eleventh Plague , has observed, Saddam Hussein refrained from using his vast chemical stockpile during the Persian Gulf War not because he feared retaliation in kind , but because he feared retaliation of comparable, or greater, magnitude . (Gen.
Once things got hot, however, "[h]e and Monica would unclench--and she would perform a private strip show for the president," making sure "the two refrained from touching each other."