Examples of purity in a Sentence
struggling to live a life of purity while surrounded by wickedness
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Aging took place in a combination of large oak barrels, smaller tonneaux, and ceramic vats to balance purity, texture, and freshness.
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Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 14 Dec. 2025
Ella McCay is gas-leak cinema at its finest, which is to say that there is a naïve purity to its unhinged qualities that is almost charming.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2025
The first Denver Mint opened for business in 1863 and was originally an assay office for miners to bring gold to be melted, tested for purity, and cast into bars.
—CBS News, 11 Dec. 2025
My mother may not have perpetuated harmful beliefs about food or bodies, but she was immersed in the evangelical purity culture of the 90s, and the expectations for mothers there were not unlike the heavy load therapeutic culture insists upon today.
—Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
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Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 14 Dec. 2025
Ella McCay is gas-leak cinema at its finest, which is to say that there is a naïve purity to its unhinged qualities that is almost charming.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2025
The first Denver Mint opened for business in 1863 and was originally an assay office for miners to bring gold to be melted, tested for purity, and cast into bars.
—CBS News, 11 Dec. 2025
My mother may not have perpetuated harmful beliefs about food or bodies, but she was immersed in the evangelical purity culture of the 90s, and the expectations for mothers there were not unlike the heavy load therapeutic culture insists upon today.
—Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
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“Purity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/purity. Accessed 21 Dec. 2025.
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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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