Sentence examples for an abstemious use from inspiring English sources

Mercifully, an abstemious use of sugar marked desserts here.

We're not saying that you should use words like "abstemious"; using a lot of words that are very complex or unusual will make it clear that you're putting on airs.

It's a bad sign when even an ascetic like Jerry Brown, who used to sleep on a mattress on his floor, makes you sound like an abstemious drip.

He was an abstemious teen, an undebauched student.

He is an abstemious sort, religious about early-morning workouts.

I lead an abstemious life up here in the winter".

Ireland looks like an abstemious jogger that has suffered a heart attack.

Fortunately, he was an alcoholic and threw off a dose of venom that would probably have destroyed an abstemious man.

Such mice, they found, are no more likely to develop cancer than those fed an abstemious diet.

He paused, and took an abstemious sip of the indifferent local white wine.

Whitman — an abstemious man and, for all his geniality, a loner — would not, I think, have recognized himself as the patron of the '60s.