Sentence examples for fasted on from inspiring English sources

Yet for the last 11 years, even as my views on religion and spirituality have changed (as well as my views on a whole host of other things), I have fasted on Yom Kippur -- religiously, one might say, abstaining from food and drink from sundown to sundown for one day of the year.

"I ran three miles a day and fasted on Sundays.

To show their compassion the judges fasted on the day of execution.

He held seders at Passover, fasted on Yom Kippur and married couples under a huppah, the Jewish wedding canopy, Ms. Perlman said.

Lauren F. Winner, who teaches at Duke Divinity School and wrote about fasting in "Mudhouse Sabbath," said early Christians fasted on Wednesdays and Fridays, as well as during Lent.

In August, as Mr. Hazare fasted on the dais, she threw a towel over her face and playacted to show that politicians cannot be trusted because they wear masks.

Here, though, he has put fasting on hold.

He fasts on Ramadan and prays, he says, every day.

The patient ceased fasting on postoperative day 2.

Penguins renew their plumage while fasting on land.

Patients should avoid fasting on "sick days".