Examples of purity in a Sentence
struggling to live a life of purity while surrounded by wickedness
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Iran has yet to inform the IAEA of the fate of its stocks of low- and highly enriched uranium (LEU and HEU), including uranium enriched to up to 60% purity, a short step from the roughly 90% of weapons grade.
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Francois Murphy, USA Today, 4 June 2026
Reformation conducted a direct aesthetic and technical comparison between Project Latvus fabric and that made with wood pulp, concluding the wheat straw fabric was comparable in purity and presented no major quality concerns.
—Jennifer Bringle, Footwear News, 1 June 2026
His victim, in her unassailable purity, resists him, thereby proving that the arrivistes populating the ranks of England’s most upwardly mobile class had a moral edge over the nobility.
—Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
In San Jose, Cohen has developed a reputation as a principled realist who has pursued progress over purity.
—Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, Mercury News, 1 June 2026
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Francois Murphy, USA Today, 4 June 2026
Reformation conducted a direct aesthetic and technical comparison between Project Latvus fabric and that made with wood pulp, concluding the wheat straw fabric was comparable in purity and presented no major quality concerns.
—Jennifer Bringle, Footwear News, 1 June 2026
His victim, in her unassailable purity, resists him, thereby proving that the arrivistes populating the ranks of England’s most upwardly mobile class had a moral edge over the nobility.
—Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
In San Jose, Cohen has developed a reputation as a principled realist who has pursued progress over purity.
—Mercury News & East Bay Times Editorial Boards, Mercury News, 1 June 2026
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“Purity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/purity. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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purity
noun
pu·ri·ty
ˈpyu̇r-ət-ē 
1
: the quality or state of being pure : freedom from impurities
2
: freedom from guilt or sin
Medical Definition
purity
noun
pu·ri·ty
ˈpyu̇r-ət-ē
: the quality or state of being pure
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