How to Use unalloyed in a Sentence

unalloyed

adjective

• The ark of history But the march to adaptation is not an unalloyed good.
  — The Economist, 19 Sep. 2019
• Part of the problem stems from the collapse itself, which the West saw as an unalloyed good and a breakthrough for global peace.
  — Seva Gunitsky, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2018
• My first impulse is to agree that this is an unalloyed marvel.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2023
• Since the moment of his birth, my 5-year-old son has been a near unalloyed joy, but the long journey to that moment was anything but joyous.
  — CNN, 21 June 2022
• That is not to say that close community ties are an unalloyed good.
  — The Economist, 14 June 2018
• Liberals view a larger welfare state as an unalloyed good, but what’s the track record?
  — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2021
• Her decision was not an unalloyed win for the male student, who lost on his claim for money damages.
  — David B. Rivkin Jr. and Andrew M. Grossman, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2020
• To experience these four miles in the West Maui Forest Reserve is to know the sheer unalloyed pleasure of true paradise.
  — Lauren Matison, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Jan. 2023
• For one, as long as the yuan selloff doesn’t turn into a panic, Beijing may not see it as an unalloyed negative.
  — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2022
• Enjoy this brief clip of their conversation, and Buttigieg’s unalloyed delight at the gift Stewart brings him.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2020
• If Cronin and Fitch had never made their discovery, that result would have been an unalloyed triumph.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 Jan. 2016
• Those replications were more exact than in past efforts, which relied on unalloyed metals in the chip.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 11 June 2020
• Dining among the Picassos, Tamayos and Steinbergs was an unalloyed pleasure for many.
  — Daniel Miller, latimes.com, 12 July 2018
• If the pandemic itself has been an unalloyed bad, its impact on sleep has been much more ambiguous.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 24 June 2020
• Burton points out that the high holidays that just passed — the first where many congregations gathered in person since the start of the pandemic — should have been a time of unalloyed joy.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2022
• There is something wistfully bittersweet about the unalloyed faith that the companies placed in what lay ahead.
  — Bob Greene, WSJ, 17 June 2019
• My Google alert for Timothée Chalamet, normally such a font of unalloyed bliss, has been very sad the past week.
  — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 3 Aug. 2018
• Despite the Passion framing, the piece is not an unalloyed celebration of Weil, a mystic and philosopher.
  — New York Times, 14 Jan. 2021
• There was at least one unalloyed positive: The fruit, Kirkpatrick said, was the highest quality produced by Lindcove Ranch in many years.
  — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
• Nor was even his art an unalloyed pleasure: his public frustrated him.
  — K.s.c., The Economist, 17 Sep. 2019
• The Union cause is sequestered in textbooks; the cause of insurrection, of states’ rights, of the unalloyed brutality of human enslavement—that cause still towers in the region where the war was fought.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 12 May 2017
• At some point, it is thought, the spacecraft will leave those roiling shoals behind and at last encounter the unalloyed interstellar magnetic field.
  — Tim Folger, Scientific American, 18 June 2022
• Of course, still having a job is not an unalloyed good; for much of America’s current workforce, earning a paycheck means exposing oneself to the virus.
  — Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2020
• The big uptick in global trade isn’t an unalloyed positive for commodities as long as China is tamping down credit growth.
  — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2018
• Amazon’s arrival might once have been heralded as an unalloyed good.
  — Alex Baca, Vox, 20 Nov. 2018
• In them, Gruden demonstrates an unalloyed contempt for this mission.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2021
• But no one with printer’s ink in his veins can resist it, and even general audiences will find its unalloyed grit endearing.
  — David Mermelstein, WSJ, 27 July 2022
• Yet consistency of message is not an unalloyed good, even when the subject is liberty.
  — Tyler Cowen Bloomberg Opinion (tns), Star Tribune, 16 Oct. 2020
• Taking over the orchestra in which both his father, Michael, and mother, Yoko Takebe, had been longtime players was not an unalloyed advantage.
  — Michael Cooper, New York Times, 31 May 2017
• But no one besides pure and unalloyed propagandists wants journalists to be more closed-minded or less willing to listen and learn.
  — Max Moran, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024