PURE in a Sentence

Learn PURE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
276 example sentences for PURE, such as:
1. The room was painted pure white.
2. So much of what's on TV is pure dross.
3. If I can be pure all the way to the end.
4. His version of events is pure supposition.
5. The horse was almost pure white in colour.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of PURE
pure
 a.  (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black
 a.  free from discordant qualities
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  You perceive that the resulting mixture has the appearance of pure water.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
2  Without a glance or a word to the cowering women, he walked up to the white silent figure which had once contained the pure soul of Lucy Ferrier.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
3  It was pure imagination, probably traceable in the beginning to lies circulated by Snowball.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
4  Beyond that was blue, pure blue, black blue; blue that had never filtered down; that had escaped registration.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
5  Every time I brought the stuff back, there would be another paper telling me to return it, because it was not pure, and another order to a different firm.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
6  This, as I take it, was because all human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
7  That cannot endure," said Ivanhoe; "if they press not right on to carry the castle by pure force of arms, the archery may avail but little against stone walls and bulwarks.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
8  My name," said the Knight, raising his helmet, "is better known, my lineage more pure, Malvoisin, than thine own.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
9  They were at once cosmopolitan and provincial, with the cosmopolitan provincialism of art that goes with pure social ideals.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
10  For, of course, being a girl, one's whole dignity and meaning in life consisted in the achievement of an absolute, a perfect, a pure and noble freedom.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
11  The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
12  He turned his full, hazel, slightly prominent eyes on her in a look of pure detachment.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
13  Your pure mind is going as dry as fiddlesticks, from what I see of it.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
14  I don't do any high and pure mental work, nothing but jot down a few ideas.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
15  My dear man, it allows the material premiss; so does the pure mind.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
Example Sentence: (66 in 5 pages)
1  The horse was almost pure white in colour.
2  In a flash of pure genius, she realized the answer to the problem.
3  Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
4  His attack on the government was pure vitriol.
5  His heart cannot be pure whose tongue is not clear.
6  Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
7  Entering the realm of Nirvana is only possible for those who have become pure.
8  So much of what's on TV is pure dross.
9  Most of what they told us was pure fantasy.
10  His version of events is pure supposition.
11  If I can be pure all the way to the end.
12  Whether the business will survive another ten years is pure conjecture.
13  The room was painted pure white.
14  Research opportunities exist in a wide range of pure and applied areas of entomology.
15  He listened to the music with an expression of pure rapture on his face.