The phrase "always refrained" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate a consistent pattern of abstaining from an action or behavior over time.
Example: "Throughout his career, he always refrained from making personal comments about his colleagues."
Alternatives: "consistently avoided" or "habitually abstained".
Postscript: In an earlier post, I wrote that Djokovic has always refrained from doing an impression of Federer.
Indeed, Henry had not always refrained from worldly pleasures; as a young man, he had fathered an illegitimate daughter.
His forceful defence of the agency is significant because in his six years as agency chair, Smith has always refrained from criticising ministers.
(Cosby has always refrained from swearing on stage, while Murphy was known to use the word "fuck" hundreds of times in an hour-long show).
A week after Qatar's bid was accepted, the highly idealistic F. C. Barcelona, which had always refrained from paid advertisements on its jerseys, turned up with a $40 million contract to advertise the Qatar Foundation, a philanthropy.
Although it had qualities "not brought out in any other book," Pantheon had "always refrained from doing books of this kind," meaning books about the Holocaust, he wrote to Borchardt.
As always, refrain from discussing politics or religion, as it is in poor taste to mention polarizing topics, ever.
It's suspicious, said Kasparov, that while Trump is "not shy of criticizing anybody or anything, from NATO to Meryl Streep, [he] always refrains from saying one negative word about Vladimir Putin".
But this intrusion was in turn largely provoked by something else, the radicalisation of large numbers of Sunni Muslims, fired by ideas of a return to "pure" Islam and of uniting Muslims into a single nation modelled on the early caliphate.The most famous proponent of such ideas, Osama bin Laden, has always carefully refrained from any reference to the Shias.
It was always bad; to refrain during Lent was hypocrisy.
It is always hard to refrain from being so obsessed with finding a plate that I miss the foreign environment for which I came.
