How to Use purely in a Sentence

purely

adverb

• It was purely and simply a matter of greed.
• The organization's mission, purely and simply, is to provide food to people who need it.
• They met purely by accident.
• Was the name changed purely to get a berth on the Lido?
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2023
• The fate of a historic season was purely in the hands of a 19-year-old.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 30 Mar. 2024
• Henry turned off that new gospel to leave purely the sound of the mitts.
  — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• But here too there is more to it than the purely post-colonial and racist reading.
  — Ed Meza, Variety, 18 Feb. 2024
• This list is purely for fun and may apply to first-borns of any gender.
  — Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
• The test was purely based on aesthetics: taste and smell.
  — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Apr. 2024
• This is not to say that this cyclical conflict is purely based on age.
  — Sho Dewan, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• Based purely on the album artwork, the project appears to be called Black Yacht Rock Vol.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2024
• In fact, some of her finest looks were purely monochromatic.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2023
• The mission was billed purely as a hunt for the Titanic, and media was kept entirely in the dark.
  — Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2023
• The next person to sell a purely AI fantasy for top dollar?
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2024
• And the ones that go to Handsome are purely provisions; there wasn’t a single ammo in them.
  — Serhiy Morgunov, Washington Post, 8 July 2024
• The actor had signed on to the project purely from his excitement over Transformers.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 12 June 2023
• This is purely based on my first listen and could change by tomorrow.
  — David Wysong, The Enquirer, 17 May 2024
• That is purely a guy during all the episodes and writing everything, and just stress eating like crazy.
  — Daniel S. Levine, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2023
• Catholicism is not a religion purely of the head, or a set of propositions one assents to.
  — Phil Klay, Time, 17 Aug. 2023
• Now, some teenagers and their parents are contemplating a life lived purely in the real world.
  — Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 June 2023
• Yes, its grandeur can be preserved on Instagram, but the real delight of it is purely present tense.
  — Ella Riley-Adams, New York Times, 4 May 2023
• My passion for Star Wars comes purely from a design level.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 26 June 2024
• The dams were used purely for power generation, not to store water for cities or farms.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• And the whales weren’t just rubbing their bodies along the ocean floor for purely practical purposes.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 May 2023
• Joe Biden has refused to do so purely out of the wish to mollify his domestic critics on the left flank of his party.
  — The Editors, National Review, 30 May 2024
• Does that mean that the Qatar portion is a purely a financial involvement?
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 20 Jan. 2024
• So the whistling and ringing in the ears caused by tinnitus is not purely a disease of the brain’s auditory system.
  — Anton Benz, Scientific American, 13 July 2023
• Some leaned on maternal instinct, and some acted purely out of anger.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 18 Nov. 2023
• So much of life seems to be like that – not purely a loss or purely a gain, but something complicated that’s in between, offering a chance to learn and grow.
  — Linda Dahlstrom Anderson, Flow Space, 2 Aug. 2024
• Trending on Billboard This characteristic depth is balanced by a lot of output that’s just purely danceable.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 2 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024