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How to use abstemious in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word abstemious? Here are some examples.

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There is no evidence, however, that a single drinking bout in an otherwise abstemious person will lead to pancreatitis.
I would follow the same abstemious regime, but unlike him I don't have an accommodating housekeeper.
Dalton was said to be abstemious but did indulge in a game of bowls on a Thursday.
Josiah Harlan was a pacifist, abstemious Pennsylvania Quaker stricken with a profound case of wanderlust.
In personality they were frugal, abstemious, shrewd, accumulative, and solitary.
Taylor portrays Hitler as a sour, arrogant, abstemious spoilsport and friend to small animals.
Both were abstemious by nature, but knew how to enjoy themselves and were interesting company.
Left to my own devices, I am an abstemious person, as innocent as a baby and jaw-droppingly naive.
He took seriously his pledge made at the outset of the war that he would live a frugal and abstemious existence as long as the war lasted.
The bill for our relatively abstemious meal worked out, with a tip, at nearly 40 leva a head.
The trend among young people was not to drink, since there were several role models who were abstemious.
But if stricter Asians were the explanation, northern cities like Bradford would also be abstemious.
Whether encouraging the abstemious to drink wine would cause them to lead healthier lives is moot.
Mr Bush had signed a bill in 2007 that will require much more abstemious cars by 2020, but then dallied over its implementation.
For example, when a patient leaves an addiction treatment centre, he is sometimes referred to as an abstemious person in his community who might help the patient on the path to rehabilitation.
In arid regions like the Middle East, Mark Zeitoun of the London School of Economics suggests substituting thirsty crops such as oranges with more abstemious olives and dates.
The fact is, all the state's water users have to become more abstemious.
As our recent briefing on the subject found, they are becoming more polite, less violent, more abstemious and less sexually adventurous characteristics that seem to be borne out in the government report.
LĂ©onardo da Vinci had an unmarried and abstemious life, had neither woman nor child, bequeathed the whole of his considerable work to make them publish.
Under his special eye Abstemious I grew up and thrived amain.
Examples from Classical Literature
I knew he was of abstemious habit or I should have thought he had been drinking.
All through their lives they should be most careful and abstemious in their diet.
The habits of the king were abstemious, an example which his sons disregarded.
For several years he was so abstemious that he had eaten but one meal a day.
In food and drink he was abstemious as a monk, while exercise was a thing abhorrent.
He was however naturally of an abstemious and recluse disposition.
This, with good reason, is attributed to their abstemious lives.
In his early days Mr. Furnival had been essentially an abstemious man.
Wrench, generally abstemious, often drank wine rather freely at a party, getting the more irritable in consequence.
A Japanese served as cook, and a Chinese as cabin boy.All drank except Lee Goom, the abstemious cabin boy.
He was most abstemious too at all his meals, and never tasted meat.
Nor was the terrible Barney likely to be more abstemious for signal punishment sustained in a far from bloodless victory.
As a matter of fact it goes to prove what an exceptionally abstemious person I am.
On the contrary, when I sailed from Australia on a tramp steamer commanded by an abstemious captain, I took no drink along, and had no drink for the forty-three days' passage.
I have now been thirty years in the public service, and have fulfilled my duties irreproachably, remained abstemious, and never been detected in any unbecoming behaviour.
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