How to Use "continence" with Example Sentences
- 1. Youthful continence shows up in all manner of social indicators .
- 2. Those who think deficit spending a sin may pray for government continence but not yet .
- 3. Deadlines are to trade negotiators what chastity and continence were to st augustine : distant aspirations rather than binding obligations .
- 4. Saint augustine of hippo , one of christianity 's most revered figures , famously asked god to help him achieve " chastity and continence , but not yet " .
- 5. If this sounds old-fashioned in an age of working women , gender equality and relative sexual continence , then open your eyes and look around you : the man with the most money or power still gets more sexual opportunities than the man with the least .