Example sentences for: purists

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

  • Avedon's ubiquity, the extraordinary variety of subjects and styles, and his willingness to shoot album covers, posters, and advertisements as well as museum-worthy black-bordered prints, have occasionally offended purists.

  • As Martyn Ecott cleverly demonstrates, francophone purists have reason for alarm; the flow, absolute flood of vocabulary from French into English, once resulting in a kind of hybridization, has lately been somewhat reversed, depositing in the elegant French language such grotesque neologisms as un pin's or hip hop.

  • On the contrary, their attention to meaning must be acute, even if purists pale at the inelegance of the many neologisms, because bound and gagged morphemes succeed in communicating with marvelous ease and utility.

  • McPaper (USA Today; some purists consider it somewhat overdesigned, overmarketed, and occasionally arch).

  • What the modern purists are doing is fully sounding the old hw in that order.


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