Sentences with 'refrain'
Example sentences and phrases with the word refrain and other words derived from it.
• « British colonists celebrated gleefully, chanting the refrain of "Rule, Britannia! / Britannia, rule the waves! / Britannia never, never, never shall be slaves!" »
• « From Maine to Georgia, British colonists gleefully celebrated the victory and sang the refrain "Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves! The British will never, never, never be slaves!" »
• « Powerful members of the aristocracy, well represented in Parliament, successfully persuaded Prime Minister John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, to refrain from raising land taxes. »
• « Under the terms of the treaty, the various states were encouraged to refrain from persecuting loyalists and to return their confiscated property. »