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Example sentences for: puritan

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

"Why did we shed our blood," he asks an uncomprehending scientific Puritan, "if I can't dance to my heart's content?"
Beyond the suspicion lay a Puritan sense that this was all dreadfully wrong.
Among American universities, Harvard University is the oldest (founded in 1636 as a training ground for puritan ministers), and the richest, and has produced numerous Nobel Prize winners.
The puritan crusaders of the North and the alienated populists of the South may share common political enemies, but little else.
Even this stiff old Puritan never supposes that it is only weak, unprincipled men who lie under such circumstances.