Example sentences for: purely

How can you use “purely” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • At first the English were content with unalloyed borrowings, but then began tacking the invidious -ard onto purely English words, producing the likes of drunkard, laggard , and sluggard .

  • In effect, the court said it didn't see the difference, holding that goals still tended to promote numerical targets and hence hiring on purely racial grounds.

  • They are baby talk, purely animal.

  • I do believe that the administration has used the National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (NIS-3) for purely political purposes--to demonize welfare reform and draw attention away from the fact that it (the administration) has no plan to rectify the crisis that afflicts the child-welfare system.

  • After his 1996 debacle, Forbes swapped his libertarian-tinged, purely economic conservatism for its opposite--a preachy, self-righteous social conservatism.


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