Synonyms

1. fast

Sentence Examples

1. None of the others had met the Count at all at close quarters, and when I had seen him he was either in the fasting stage of his existence in his rooms or, when he was gloated with fresh blood, in a ruined building open to the air but here the place was small and close, and the long disuse had made the air stagnant and foul.
2. This the student was to swallow upon a fasting stomach, and for three days following eat nothing but bread and water.
3. And now, they had abandoned him, none of them was his any more, neither fasting, nor waiting, nor thinking.
4. It may be supposed that Dantès did not now think of his dinner, but he insisted that his comrades, who had not his reasons for fasting, should have their meal.
5. I lie awake while thou sleepest, I weep while thou singest, I am faint with fasting while thou art sluggish and torpid from pure repletion.
6. Into being a priest, into this arrogance, into this spirituality, his self had retreated, there it sat firmly and grew, while he thought he would kill it by fasting and penance.
7. When a person has nothing to eat, fasting is the smartest thing he could do.
8. But the mysteries of nature are incomprehensible, and there are certain invitations contained in even the coarsest food which appeal very irresistibly to a fasting stomach.
9. It was still the art of thinking, of waiting, of fasting, which guided his life still the people of the world, the childlike people, had remained alien to him as he was alien to them.