How to Use purity in a Sentence

purity

noun
  • In the front of the card, a naked babe rides the white horse, showing the purity of heart and innocence of the Sun.
    Lisa Stardust, Peoplemag, 17 June 2024
  • Now we were gathered again around her bed and what struck us was the loss of this purity.
    Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Their success can be traced back to the purity of their products.
    Cbd Scout, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024
  • As for the colors, the red stripes are for valor and the white stripes are for purity and innocence.
    Chris Sims, The Indianapolis Star, 13 June 2024
  • As for the colors, the red stripes are for valor and the white stripes are for purity and innocence.
    Chris Sims, The Courier-Journal, 14 June 2024
  • Then there was the Big Maple Leaf coin, in all its purity, size, detail, and value.
    Hazlitt, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Such purity of purpose is both the film’s strength and its weakness.
    Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
  • When the air is passed through the device, it is checked for the purity and quantity of the oxygen produced.
    Zoe Wells, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2023
  • She’s shunned from the sect once her purity is compromised by Joseph.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024
  • The church was clear in their belief that whiteness was purity and darkness was sin.
    The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The love and purity of music is what’s missing from hip-hop today.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2022
  • Why can’t Usher ditch the purity bit and ghostwrite some gospel plays for Tyler Perry?
    Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • This ensures that the colostrum used in the supplement is of the highest quality and purity.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Who among us hasn’t felt some version of that self-righteous purity?
    WIRED, 23 Feb. 2023
  • An ode to laundry baskets and durable flooring, washed windows and the slick purity of the Western-style kitchen.
    Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2023
  • And there's a purity of spirit at the core of his stories that is compelling and relatable.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 27 June 2024
  • And just like a happy couple's love, this rose is the real deal, as it's not dipped or tin-plated and comes with a tin purity stamp.
    Terri Huggins Hart, Woman's Day, 1 Aug. 2022
  • The noodles are picked up with chopsticks, dipped in the sauce and then eaten, solemnly, with a kind of reverence to their purity.
    Yotam Ottolenghi, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • This is surely part of the reason that the purity of the thrill that our grandparents got from Mays and his peers is not reproducible now.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
  • Well my fave is spring 2012, just the purity and confidence with color.
    Vogue Runway, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2022
  • It's become a cliche for parents to look at their young children and see a kind of purity and innocence.
    Leah Donnella, NPR, 18 May 2024
  • This was why Pablo Christiani had sought her out—to fall into the embrace of her purity, of her easy and natural faith.
    Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
  • There’s a purity and immaturity to it that’s kind of painful to listen to.
    Vulture, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The purity of focus of the artists and their devotion to craft is a refreshing departure from much of the Cirque pantheon.
    Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024
  • And white evokes the innocence and purity of Elsa, to whose aid Lohengrin has come.
    Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2023
  • At a time when purity culture’s reputation is on the ropes, Troutt wants to be a new kind of advocate.
    Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Some has been enriched up to 60% purity — a short technical step from weapons-grade levels of 90%.
    Emily Schultheis, ajc, 6 June 2022
  • Their need for purity is crucial to allow Virgo to live a drama-free life.
    Lisa Stardust, Peoplemag, 14 May 2024
  • The gaslighting from both sides is truly impressive, but too many of us have turned off our common sense in order to adhere to each party’s obscene and insane purity tests.
    S.e. Cupp, New York Daily News, 10 July 2024
  • Their material choices, the natural wood flooring, and the off-white walls coexist seamlessly with the geometry of shapes and the purity of the apartment’s lines.
    Nicolas Milon, Architectural Digest, 2 Sep. 2024

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