Sentence examples for let's refrain from inspiring English sources

Since it's highly questionable that inflexible roommate assignments confer any educational or character-building benefit beyond having a tale to tell later, let's refrain from condemning college students to a year of misery even if it's "for their own good".

Let's refrain from confusing hefty with awkward.

But let's refrain from such moralistic hand-wringing.

Until it becomes law, let's refrain from scolding those who come to work when they're sick.

Instead of going along as most people are doing now and saying, OK, let's refrain from criticising Islam, let's refrain from calling Islamic terrorism Islamic, I think we should do the opposite".

Think James Blake meets Mumford & Sons (but please, let's refrain from the tag 'folk-step', a term more juddering than their basslines).

"All right, you rowdies, calm down now," he said, and the ostensible nonpartisan couldn't help thinking of Bloomberg's piqued refrain "Let's get serious".

Cynical politicians, jargon-spouting economists and jaded television presenters are chewed up: one gleeful chorus number has a government minister belting out the refrain: "Let's run this country into the ground".

But in a city where "Let's get drinks!" is a common refrain, I wanted to respond without hesitation.

The beat steadily grows from the verses to the bridge and, finally, to the chorus, with pounding drums coming in to the loop during the refrain as Knowles sings: "Let's start over / Let's give love their wings / Let's start over / Stop fighting bout the same old thing".

Let's please hope that they refrain from that this time.