Example sentences for: purist

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

  • If your tastes are downmarket, you can be a purist in that department too--just buy the works of white-trash aficionados Jane and Michael Stern, all of whose dishes must be presented with the requisite ironic appurtenances, such as trays and swizzle sticks.

  • And there are always those who will accuse me of being a purist, which I do not think I am.

  • Dryden, if not a purist, was certainly a traditionalist and a precisian in language:

  • I am too much a purist, not to say pedant, to utter unnecessarily the loan word liques (from the English leak ).

  • Still, the singers, dancers, guitarists, and flashy, colorful costumes are enjoyable to all but the purist.


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