How To Use abstemiousness In A Sentence
- Jake made up for any parental abstemiousness though.
- We only had four bottles of wine - due to the wine service rather than any abstemiousness on our part.
- Four years, or so, of abstemiousness, enable them to stand an election dinner; and there is no hope of broken heads among a score or two of quiet electors, who settle the business over a table. The Surgeon's Daughter
- It turns out Fields was a huge admirer of hers, but their approaches to comedy, and life, were poles apart - Fields being a master of excess and West a paragon of abstemiousness.
- With a rich family and a father who owned a huge whaling fleet, Hetty was raised with an abstemiousness that belied their wealth but money was certainly of interest to her. Erica Heller: "The Witch of Wall Street," a Cautionary Tale for Tough Times?
- January's abstemiousness has grown in relation to Christmas's excess, an increasingly commercialised response to the very commercialism that we're all feeling so hung over from. Broken resolutions can be good for you | Hephzibah Anderson
- Walter, for I know he has a thousand things, and I a thousand nothings, to do; but I hope to see him at Abbotsford before very long, and I will sweat his claret for him, though Italian abstemiousness has made my brain but a shilpit concern for a Scotch sitting 'inter pocula.' Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
- That is not to suggest that I am a model of abstemiousness who has never made an idiot of himself after five too many.
- But this here New York was inaugurated on the idea of abstemiousness in regard to the parts of speech. Sixes and Sevens
- It turns out Fields was a huge admirer of hers, but their approaches to comedy, and life, were poles apart - Fields being a master of excess and West a paragon of abstemiousness.