Example sentences for: puritanical

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

  • American television is generally much more puritanical than Britain's in reediting films for transmission.

  • Lew Miller's decision had been a practical one: he felt it foolish to sacrifice the sales of many thousands of copies of the dictionary in the Bible Belt and other puritanical bastions of conservatism like Texas and California merely for the sake of a “couple of four-letter words.”

  • It's the most jittery of periods, both exhibitionistic and paranoid, and David Berkowitz--the self-proclaimed Son of Sam--emerges from the ocean of decadence like a toxic monster, a puritanical avenger.

  • She has a puritanical sensibility.

  • As a portrait of the artist, it's puritanical crap.


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