total abstainer

Example Sentences

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Sam Snead, whose fluent style has lasted longer than any other man’s in the history of the game, was reduced to putting between his legs, croquet fashion—and he was a total abstainer for years.

From Golf Digest • Mar. 31, 2020

Every one of the thousands of Salvationists," said General Kitching, "is a total abstainer.

From Time Magazine Archive

I am, as everyone knows, a vegetarian, and a total abstainer from tobacco, alcohol and soap.

From Time Magazine Archive

Several months ago white-haired George Lansbury, total abstainer, First Commissioner of Public Works, suddenly decided that it was only right and proper for women M. P.'s to have the privilege of bathing in Parliament also.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mervyn, though by no means a total abstainer was a temperate man—so it was not that.

From The Heath Hover Mystery by Mitford, Bertram