Good night, but go not to mine Vnkles bed, Assume a Vertue, if you haue it not, refraine to night, And that shall lend a kinde of easinesse To the next abstinence.
Nay aske me if I can refraine from loue, For I doe loue her most vnfainedly Iohn.
And therewithall the king no longer induring to sit vp, laid him downe on his right side, his face towards them: and none was there present that could refraine from weeping.
And for this occasion the prince was in the life of his father sent thither, to the end that the authoritie of his presence should refraine euill disposed persons from the boldnesse of their former outrages.
The kéeper of Bées which mindeth to handle and looke into hiues, ought the day before to refraine the veneriall acte, not a person fearefull, nor comming to the hiue with vnwashed handes and face.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "refraine" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
