Example sentences for: purists

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

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

  • If he is right, then those who show it at all are merely genuflecting in the direction of the purists.

  • 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.

  • And ever since, the purists have been more concerned about bad Latin than good English.

  • Cistercian monks protested that such a sumptuous structure was an insult to the godly virtue of poverty, and today, architectural purists still find Notre-Dame a bit “too much.”


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