Example sentences for: puritan

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

  • As the eminent Puritan theologian William Ames wrote in Conscience and the Cases Thereof , "[H]e whose offence is hidden has ...

  • 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 editorship of Tina Brown is usually credited—more usually, faulted— with that journal's frequent use of the word, and though writers did use it frequently under Ms. Brown, in fact fuck appeared there, spelled in full, in 1985, during the editorship of the puritan William Shawn, in a short story by Bobbie Ann Mason: Maybe you have to find out for yourself.

  • The outrage it has prompted isn't the Puritan kind; it's more like legitimate revulsion at watching a blowhard pervert people's lives in the name of "larger dramatic truths."

  • When the pair land in colonial America, they hook up with Benjamin Franklin, finding not a parsimonious Puritan but a turned-on, pre-psychedelic party animal.


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