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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:

Legal gambling brings out the latent puritan in many Americans.
Like Conant, Chauncey was a member of the Protestant Establishment, a graduate of Groton and Harvard, a man from Puritan stock.
"Why did we shed our blood," he asks an uncomprehending scientific Puritan, "if I can't dance to my heart's content?"
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.
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.