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

Instead, there’s abstemious pots of earl grey and three sorry biscuits.

From The Guardian • Mar. 13, 2020

Everyone drank it, constantly, with the exception of the rather abstemious Hitler himself.

From Slate • Jul. 12, 2017

Tara, who writes that she gains weight easily, is interested in the question of why some people eat like hogs and stay thin, while others expand no matter how abstemious they try to be.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 27, 2017

An ardent Methodist, he was an abstemious, plain-spoken man, tall and muscular, with a dry sense of humor.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson