How to Use pure and simple in a Sentence

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• They just pure and simple work.
  — Lee Ann Anderson, The Hill, 3 Nov. 2025
• It was caused, pure and simple, by the surge in the money supply.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
• Freely No one likes to admit to being wrong, pure and simple.
  — John Hall, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
• The magnetic pull these shoes have on me starts with the pure and simple design.
  — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Nov. 2022
• And the reason is that the carriers are evil - pure and simple.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Mar. 2012
• Moutier says this is a public health crisis, pure and simple.
  — Susan Spencer, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2023
• This is extortion, pure and simple.
  — Robin Abcarian, Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2025
• That is honesty and respect for our years of following you, pure and simple.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2023
• Web-site defacements and non-cyber actions are protest, pure and simple.
  — Yochai Benkler, Foreign Affairs, 4 Apr. 2012
• Kevin and his brothers, who will soon be drawn into the ring along with him, see themselves as athletes, pure and simple.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 12 Dec. 2023
• The fragrance is pure and simple in structure but in extreme in character.
  — Joseph Deacetis, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2021
• No one will use this car in inclement conditions, but rather as a fair-weather machine to be seen and heard in—pure and simple.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 12 Aug. 2024
• Often, that tension expresses itself in a pure and simple obsession with life and death.
  — Omer Daida, The New Yorker, 20 July 2022
• This pursuit is designed to intimidate lawful speech, pure and simple.
  — Jude Joffe-Block, NPR, 6 July 2026
• The days of pure and simple bread-and-butter unionism in UTLA are over.
  — Howard Blumestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023
• While the emotive response that drives donors to give is pure and simple, the truth is that disasters are incredibly complex.
  — Patricia McIlreavy, Forbes, 29 June 2021
• Sandie’s hair and clothes and general demeanor are Soho ‘65, pure and simple, which is to say not so pure, not so simple.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2021
• The restaurant’s fan favorite might well be the garden peas served with grated fresh summer truffle and cheese from Danish cows—this dish is a mic drop, pure and simple.
  — Katie Kelly Bell, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• Griner is a hostage, pure and simple, says The Washington Post in an editorial.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 8 July 2022
• The 2022 Chevrolet Camaro coupe and convertible are about the pure and simple joy of driving.
  — Car and Driver, 4 Feb. 2022
• Still, despite its tougher rules for smaller lenders, Europe is not immune to a potential run on its banks or a rout in their stocks of the kind induced by pure and simple panic.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 15 Mar. 2023
• What the Biden administration is doing is government overreach, pure and simple.
  — NBC News, 12 Sep. 2021
• This budget creatine option is a pure and simple powder that provides five grams of micronized creatine monohydrate per serving.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2023
• Their main function is to ruthlessly eliminate any potential sources of opposition or dissent, pure and simple, no questions asked.
  — Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 11 Apr. 2022
• This campaign against responsible investing is pandering, pure and simple.
  — Peter Krull, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• The Russian jets’ activities were bullying, pure and simple — at best an attempt to muscle aircraft out of airspace that’s open to all, if not outright destroy it.
  — Sébastien Roblin, CNN, 17 Mar. 2023
• To suggest that a Jew renounce Israel to be accepted in civil society is antisemitism, pure and simple.
  — Marc Schneier, New York Daily News, 27 Jan. 2026
• Unlike in virtually every other major sporting event, the Olympics are all about patriotism, pure and simple and chilling.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2024
• DeSantis’s presidential campaign was a marketing failure, pure and simple.
  — Adam Hanft, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2024
• Because everything is about money, pure and simple—rather than, say, divorce, barking dogs or auto accidents—the details don’t always present themselves immediately.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2021