How to Use abstemious in a Sentence

abstemious

adjective

• She is known as an abstemious eater and drinker.
• His first term now looks practically abstemious.
  — Erin Neil, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026
• Denis, who died this week at the age of sixty-seven, was resolutely sober, abstemious, but not at all grave.
  — Tobias Wolff, The New Yorker, 28 May 2017
• The White House started serving liquor again after the abstemious Carter years.
  — Lou Cannon, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2016
• What did Rogers, the abstemious beanpole, have to offer as an alternative?
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 7 June 2018
• Freddy was an awkward fit in a proud, humorless, abstemious family.
  — Anne Diebel, The New York Review of Books, 8 Sep. 2020
• This was easier in the days when politicians frequently drank at lunch—and some drank a lot—but remains a stock-in-trade even in these abstemious times.
  — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
• As a result, ladies had to be adept in carrying their gloves while enjoying non-abstemious indoor activities.
  — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 19 Mar. 2017
• Lunchtimes are more abstemious with avocado and tuna packed poke bowls and watermelon salad at the W lounge.
  — Jemima Sissons, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
• This year’s exercise, which runs from August 17th to 31st, will be a more abstemious affair.
  — The Economist, 16 Aug. 2020
• Everyone drank it, constantly, with the exception of the rather abstemious Hitler himself.
  — Laura Miller, Slate Magazine, 12 July 2017
• Despite rumors of a dalliance with a female gymnastics star, Putin publicly presents himself as upright and abstemious.
  — Fox News, 17 Mar. 2018
• In a nation with an abstemious Protestant cultural heritage, self-indulgence—and comfort for its own sake—will always find hackles to raise.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2020
• Carter was consistently ethical, abstemious, frugal and ascetic in the White House.
  — Washington Post, 18 June 2021
• Rigorous and painful, abstemious and a little hippie-kooky, the Ashram is one of the more curious yet luxurious experiences to be had.
  — Sally Singer, Vogue, 13 June 2018
• Some analysts have blamed inflation’s impact on household savings for this more temperate mood, but others see the trend as a warning that young consumers may be more abstemious than older generations.
  — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 16 Jan. 2026
• But Ronaldo and Messi have long followed comparatively abstemious lifestyles.
  — Jonathan Clegg, WSJ, 12 June 2018
• In Seoul’s Itaewon neighborhood, you’re reminded that South Korea is neither homogeneous nor locked into an abstemious order.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2022
• The most shockingly inexplicable is that of Jack Berman, the studious, abstemious son of Holocaust survivors who fulfills his parents’ dreams by becoming a successful lawyer — and, at age 36, is gunned down by a random madman who hates lawyers.
  — Evan Thomas, Washington Post, 25 July 2019