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Example sentences for: refraining

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When they're not having constant sex or actively refraining from it, celebs seem to be busy entertaining flirtatious, schoolgirl crushes on one another.
The resulting tit-for-tat is perhaps the best possible argument for refraining from even well-intentioned political efforts to shape the public-school curriculum.
FAIR notes that ABC devoted 85 percent of its crowd shots to people standing to applaud, but only 15 percent to those refraining.
He argues that refraining from having a child may impoverish those who would have been your child's friends and mates.
A couple of notes before the actual substance--thank you for refraining from chuckling--of today's column: Today's stock-market action was actually quite fascinating to watch, especially once the early-day plunge was out of the way.