How to Use impure in a Sentence

impure

adjective
  • Victorian notions of what qualified as impure art now strike us as laughable.
  • The cure for impure thoughts, the priests told us, was to go out and play basketball.
    — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2018
  • But if anybody else is dealing with these players, their motives are impure.
    — Gary Bedore, kansascity, 18 Apr. 2018
  • For Hartley, closing the sheds would kill the two birds of impure milk and alcohol with one stone.
    — Catherine Long, JSTOR Daily, 17 Jan. 2024
  • There was also the upset about Ryan, who shows her breasts—a sweetheart made impure through pulp fiction.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2024
  • Pop entered a renaissance thanks to smart young women sharing impure thoughts.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
  • This includes refraining from impure and unkind thoughts, vulgar words, and bad deeds.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 23 Mar. 2023
  • This does not mean that your partner enabling your dreams through their money makes your relationship impure.
    — Mark Travers, Forbes, 7 May 2023
  • In many regions in India, menstruation is thought to be dirty and impure.
    — Puja Changoiwala, SELF, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Even on a first date, there’s suspicion that a foreigner could have impure intentions.
    — Kalle Oskari Mattila, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2019
  • Music, like most beautiful things, is most seductive when impure.
    — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • When a destination is deemed dead might be the best time to go there, as the most accurate reflection of our impure world.
    — Ben Huberman, Longreads, 24 Oct. 2019
  • However, this growing demand has led to an influx of impure products on the market.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Small rural dairies, now considered the source of impure milk, were the new villains creating impure milk.
    — Catherine Long, JSTOR Daily, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Tiffanie further alleged that the brothers were practicing witchcraft, and that the two had impure thoughts about the pastor.
    — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 17 June 2018
  • Unbeknownst to the cleaner, ash combined with the animal grease to create a simple, impure soap.
    — Cody Cassidy, Time, 5 May 2020
  • Our emotions are mixed and impure, messy, tangled, and at times contradictory, like everything else in our lives.
    — Rafael Euba, Quartzy, 23 July 2019
  • Across the country, women in many homes are not allowed to cook or touch anyone during their period as they are considered impure and dirty.
    — Reshmi Chakraborty, CNN, 27 May 2020
  • Fortunately, the sarin used was impure, otherwise the casualty list would have been much longer.
    — Simon Cotton, Scientific American, 9 Mar. 2018
  • But to pursue a state of purity—even a fictional one; even a made-up, obviously impure one—still feels righteous.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2024
  • In the generals’ worldview, women are often considered weak and impure.
    — New York Times, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Essentially, a face scrub gets beneath the surface, and lifts away dead and impure skin cells, allowing newer, younger skin cells to surface.
    — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Mar. 2022
  • There was no objection to a dog meet-up in a park, though Islamists consider dogs impure and see owning them as a Western habit.
    — Diaa Hadid and Majd Al Waheidi, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2016
  • That's why the silicon found in solar panels is impure, mixed in with another element, like phosphorous.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 6 July 2019
  • If impure quartz is used, the outside materials can hamper the effectiveness of the transistor.
    — Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Wad, perhaps the most abundant, is a dark-brown-to-black, very soft, earthy mineral that is commonly considered an impure hydrous oxide of manganese.
    — arkansasonline.com, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Azad's Facebook post states that women are denied entry to the temple because of the belief that menstruating makes women impure.
    — Alexi McCammond, Cosmopolitan, 23 Nov. 2015
  • Besides, too great a concern with origin degenerates too easily into a concern with purity, and folklore is most impure.
    — Kevin Young, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
  • The more obvious one, given those titular peepers, is that Mizu had a white father, rendering her an impure monster to her countrymen.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Two major developments in the mid-1800s showed why impure water is dangerous.
    — Bill Sullivan, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2025

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