Words similar to puritan

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?"
Klein has a horror of what he rather predictably perceives to be a New Puritan movement in America attempting to eliminate bad-for-you indulgences such as fat or cigarettes.
Legal gambling brings out the latent puritan in many Americans.
In spite of this neo-Puritan trends towards PC `politically correct' nomenclature, with all the presure to conform that it brings, there are still sometimes perfectly good reasons for changing the name of a place.
Even this stiff old Puritan never supposes that it is only weak, unprincipled men who lie under such circumstances.