Example sentences for: refrains

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

  • Get down , however, besides meaning to alight, also refers to loosening up or having sex (from get down to it ), as in the refrains of so many funk songs from the 1970's.

  • The author explicitly refrains from examples of nomination, in code names, code-numbered names, anonyms, pet names, name-changing, and other onomastic oddities in this material (p. 285).

  • USAT somehow refrains from calling it a "dress" rehearsal.

  • Folderol (or falderal ) is drawn from the meaningless syllables sung in the refrains of many English folksongs, “fol-de-rol-deray.”

  • Woodchuck refrains from identifying the product because it's selling the name of the product, not the product itself.


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