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refraining

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as inabstinence

as incontinence
as indenial
as inforbearance
as insobriety
as intraversal

antonyms for refraining

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How to use refraining in a sentence

I can tell you’ve got a longing to sally forth, a-thronging—I ask you, please refrain.

STYLE INVITATIONAL WEEK 1419: SEND US THE BILL — OUR ‘JOINT LEGISLATION’ CONTESTPAT MYERSJANUARY 14, 2021WASHINGTON POST

The agreement called on providers to refrain from shutting off business or residential customers who could not pay, for example, and suspended potential late fees.

HOUSE DEMOCRATS ASK AT&T, COMCAST TO SHARE DATA ABOUT HOME INTERNET SHUTOFFS AS LAWMAKERS EYE NEW STIMULUS AIDTONY ROMMJANUARY 12, 2021WASHINGTON POST

Still, some political operatives doubted that companies would be able to refrain from PAC donations for long.

CAMPAIGN FINANCE SYSTEM ROCKED AS FIRMS PAUSE OR HALT CONTRIBUTIONS AFTER ELECTION RESULTS CHALLENGEDTODD FRANKEL, JEFF STEIN, TONY ROMMJANUARY 11, 2021WASHINGTON POST

That advice has been a constant refrain in a pandemic responsible for more than 350,000 deaths in the United States.

PEOPLE WITHOUT SYMPTOMS SPREAD VIRUS IN MORE THAN HALF OF CASES, CDC MODEL FINDSBEN GUARINOJANUARY 7, 2021WASHINGTON POST

Hospital leaders, front-line workers and experts condemned Ducey for refraining from imposing sweeping mitigation measures.

LOS ANGELES IS RUNNING OUT OF OXYGEN FOR PATIENTS AS COVID HOSPITALIZATIONS HIT RECORD HIGHS NATIONWIDEFENIT NIRAPPIL, WILLIAM WANJANUARY 5, 2021WASHINGTON POST

A common refrain across major luxury brands’ earnings calls this year was that sales were tanking everywhere except China.

HOW CHINA’S SWIFT RECOVERY BOOSTED IT TO FASHION CAPITAL STATUSJIM COOPERDECEMBER 28, 2020DIGIDAY

Campbell Supervisor Matt Cline aimed to solve that issue by rewriting the resolution so that it simply prohibits using any county money or employees to enforce the restrictions and requests that the sheriff refrain from doing so.

RURAL VIRGINIA COUNTY OFFICIALS PASS RESOLUTION REJECTING ‘TYRANNY’ OF GOVERNOR’S CORONAVIRUS RESTRICTIONSGREGORY S. SCHNEIDERDECEMBER 3, 2020WASHINGTON POST

Refraining from vowing to him, man sustains a character no higher than the wicked who restrain prayer before God.

THE ORDINANCE OF COVENANTINGJOHN CUNNINGHAM

What had happened to her that she should be thus beside herself, and hardly capable of refraining from open tears?

ORLEY FARMANTHONY TROLLOPE

Abstain′er, specially one who does not take alcoholic drinks; Absten′tion, a refraining.

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