How to pronounce abstain

Usage examples

• Hundreds of thousands abstain from it because they regard it with horror.
• Six countries abstained: Algeria, Brazil, China, Pakistan, the Philippines and Russia.
• The chocolate bar looked so tempting that Lenna just couldn't abstain from it.
• Two of the nine members present abstained.
• The chocolate bar looked so tempting that Lenna just couldn't abstain from it.
• Abstaining from such activity, however, brings great rewards.
• The chocolate bar looked so tempting that Lenna just couldn't abstain from it.
• The chocolate bar looked so tempting that Lenna just couldn't abstain from it.
• McWalter abstained on the first vote in the Commons on implementing the cut.
• The deputies of Mayotte abstained.