abstemious

Example Sentences

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During his visit at Cluain Mhic Nóis, Artt makes few complaints about the abbot’s lax management, but everything about his abstemious manner suggests how disappointed he is.

From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2022

Whatever’s abstemious in aristocratic ways of moving gets critiqued through flawless mimicry until it emerges enhanced, almost unrecognizable, suddenly irresistible.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2021

The holiday follows the abstemious 40-day period of Lent, and it arrives in springtime in the Northern hemisphere, meaning that it’s a day of symbolic spiritual triumph that usually also feels like one.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2020

Together with your abstemious partner, you explore a washed-up, working-class coastal town, interrogating mostly uncoöperative residents as you piece together the broader socioeconomic context of the killing.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 17, 2019

“I should have guessed. Too opulent for your abstemious revolutionary and yourself, I take it?”

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie