How to Use purity in a Sentence

purity

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  • Now we were gathered again around her bed and what struck us was the loss of this purity.
    — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Then there was the Big Maple Leaf coin, in all its purity, size, detail, and value.
    — Hazlitt, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Such purity of purpose is both the film’s strength and its weakness.
    — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
  • When the air is passed through the device, it is checked for the purity and quantity of the oxygen produced.
    — Zoe Wells, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The church was clear in their belief that whiteness was purity and darkness was sin.
    — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Why can’t Usher ditch the purity bit and ghostwrite some gospel plays for Tyler Perry?
    — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • This ensures that the colostrum used in the supplement is of the highest quality and purity.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Who among us hasn’t felt some version of that self-righteous purity?
    — WIRED, 23 Feb. 2023
  • An ode to laundry baskets and durable flooring, washed windows and the slick purity of the Western-style kitchen.
    — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • The noodles are picked up with chopsticks, dipped in the sauce and then eaten, solemnly, with a kind of reverence to their purity.
    — Yotam Ottolenghi, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Well my fave is spring 2012, just the purity and confidence with color.
    — Vogue Runway, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2022
  • This was why Pablo Christiani had sought her out—to fall into the embrace of her purity, of her easy and natural faith.
    — Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
  • There’s a purity and immaturity to it that’s kind of painful to listen to.
    — Vulture, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The purity of focus of the artists and their devotion to craft is a refreshing departure from much of the Cirque pantheon.
    — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024
  • And white evokes the innocence and purity of Elsa, to whose aid Lohengrin has come.
    — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2023
  • At a time when purity culture’s reputation is on the ropes, Troutt wants to be a new kind of advocate.
    — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The sauce was made through a months-long practice that maintained its purity and gave a signature flavor.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 27 Feb. 2024
  • What makes the party so unique in the nightlife landscape right now, according to Umru, is the purity of its intentions.
    — Cassidy George, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Like the first snowfall, white is often linked to purity and serenity.
    — Katie Bourque, Good Housekeeping, 16 Nov. 2022
  • There’s a false purity in Fricke’s vision, but oh, what an enormous vision.
    — Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Gone are the Jonas Brothers' days of wearing purity rings and writing about innocent, young love.
    — Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 10 May 2023
  • The picture’s minimalism, its rectilinear purity, sets off the sumptuous curves of the sitter’s body, the curved back of the chair and the shawl draped over it.
    — Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The hemp used in their production is grown in the USA, ensuring its purity and top-notch quality.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The easiest way to decode the message is to replace every mention of raw with terms for purity.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Sometimes because of the colors, sometimes because of their sense of purity.
    — Laura May Todd, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The Ottoman artist chose to depict the prophet’s purity through the use of white fabrics, and his entire being as touched by the light of God via the large flaming nimbus that encircles his body.
    — Christiane Gruber, The Conversation, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Why do questions about fences and genetic purity dog bison hunts the way wolves follow wintering herds in the wild?
    — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 26 Oct. 2023
  • That hazy ideal of purity has long lingered like a halo above the discourse about food additives.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • During her last meeting with Mother Teresa, which saw the pair walk hand in hand around the Bronx, Diana’s classic white skirt suit evoked a message of purity and peace.
    — Alice Newbold, Vogue, 14 Nov. 2023
  • In many ways, those experiences have been a form of trauma and have affected me and so many women who were raised in this purity movement.
    — Rica Cerbarano, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2023

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