Sentence example with the word 'refraining'

refraining

abstainment, avoidance, circumvention, elusion, evasion, forbearance, gymnosophy, noninvolvement, shunning, simple diet, the runaround

Last update: July 25, 2015


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The resignation of the Gladstone-Granville cabinet further precluded the projected Italian occupation of Suakin, and the Italians, wisely refraining from an independent attempt to succour Kassala, then besieged by the Mahdists, bent their efforts to the increase of their zone of occupation around Massawa.   [Please select]

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, refraining from taking from them the land necessary for their subsistence.   [Please select]

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The economy that America usually needs is perhaps less that of refraining from buying than that of turning things to account.   [Please select]

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He himself had had some difficulty in breathing, and refraining with an effort from coughing.   [Please select]

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She recognized those rules by refraining from putting her request into words.   [Please select]

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He paused, then refraining from discussing the subject, said: "Why have you not told me this before, Uncle Stephen."   [Please select]

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And she ran out of the room, with difficulty refraining from tears of vexation and irritation rather than of sorrow.   [Please select]

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