refrain

How To Use refrain In A Sentence

• Some of my remarks here are directed toward conventional scientists, who generally refrain from commenting critically on the wild ideas of a few of their colleagues because it is bad manners.
• This is Europe's problem too," went the refrain, after more than 1,400 immigrant had arrived in Tenerife and Gran Canaria in the previous week, making 2,000 landing in the month, mostly from Senegal and Mali. The pace quickens
• Arabic influence may have some part in the genesis of the songs, although the tonality of the Cantigas (mainly Dorian and Mixolydian modes) and basic structure are European; the virelai serves as the basic form, already in use with the Latin conductus, and divided into refrain – mudanza – vuelta – refrain (AA-bb-aa-AA, as in N.º 361). Archive 2009-07-01
• Please refrain from talking during the performance.
• I promise to refrain from taking part in feuds and quarrels and from creating enmity.
• It's honestly embarrassing to listen to, but one should refrain from calling Arrington a brown-noser because who knows? Dan Snyder Mounts Charm Offensive Many Years Too Late
• Men are asked to refrain from reading the Shema in the presence of a woman who has a single handbreadth exposed. Modesty and Sexuality in Halakhic Literature.
• The European Central Bank refrains from meaningful credit ease as Euroland economies slide towards downturn.
• One consequence of the astonishing potency of the MIA myth is the refrain of today's American war films that no one must be left behind.
• The other constant refrain is a more general sense that no one seems to care any more. Times, Sunday Times