Sentence examples for refrain from mating from inspiring English sources

In case of group 1, genes enriched for the category BP were either related to "filamentous growth" or to "sexual reproduction" and neighboring terms emphasizing again that cells refrain from mating and sporulation as a survival strategy when conditions become very scarce.

Our data suggest that lower ranking females refrained from calling when mating with high-ranking males if high-ranking females were nearby, suggesting that they were trying to conceal their sexual activity in these circumstances.

Of course, if you are a bad singer, refrain from using the microphone- save your band mates from the earache.

You'd think the president would have the decency to wait, and refrain from holding a press conference that made the two of them sound like soul mates.

Iraqi Shiites refrain from retaliating.

He planned to refrain from the latter.

He may refrain from provocations in Georgia.

First, refrain from hype.

If not, refrain from posting.

To refrain from lecturing.

Therefore, we refrain from hypothesis testing.