Examples of purely in a Sentence

They met purely by accident. a selection based purely on merit The organization's mission, purely and simply, is to provide food to people who need it. It was purely and simply a matter of greed.

Recent Examples on the Web Yet, to deny that there is a widespread problem on Britain’s railways with servicing disabled passengers, or to make out that such issues are purely systematic is simply unrealistic and myopic. — Gus Alexiou, Forbes, 26 June 2022 Right now, the tool is designed purely for research and comes with caveats, including that it’s limited by a lack of age and geographic diversity in the datasets used to build it. — Kasra Zarei, STAT, 18 June 2022 Such crises, with democracy’s fate left to a handful of officials, rarely resolve purely on legal or constitutional principles, even if those might later be cited as justification. — New York Times, 18 June 2022 Yet a growing number of rallies have shifted from the high-risk, high-reward concept to focus solely on the latter, driven purely by joie de vivre. — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 17 June 2022 The fine aura of horror never abates, yet a final surprising twist makes Edward’s fate seem less purely demonic and something perhaps more unsettling—a kind of metamorphosis. — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 17 June 2022 Although the City Girls’ music is meant to purely entertain, this speaks to a larger conversation around the racial wealth gap and how Black women fit in. — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 15 June 2022 For starters, this is not a purely American problem: Canada, the United Kingdom, and other countries are facing record-high prices too. — Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 June 2022 No longer purely villainous, the character becomes more sympathetic and complex. — Steve Dollar, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2022 See More

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