How to Use puritan in a Sentence

puritan

adjective
  • Before God, Puritan preachers taught, all human callings, all useful work, is equal.
    — Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 2 June 2026
  • Even somewhat puritan Massachusetts is giving soccer fans more time to drink during the tournament.
    — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 9 June 2026
  • All of that came to an abrupt end in 1979 as the Islamic Republic, in its quest to build a puritan new man, severely restricted the arts.
    — Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2025
  • Probably Solomon Kane was the biggest [influence] besides Conan, this kind of mashup of puritan warrior priest and vampires and monsters and the undead and all these things.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Fantasy worlds like Oz and the Fae Land of Prythian were not exempt from the ruthless gaze of literal-minded Puritan descendants.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
  • There’s not much tension to be found in these interviews, even as Fumudoh is still playing her comic role as puritan interrogator, but her questions regularly facilitate the type of quick-witted banter that populates Instagram video-podcast clips.
    — Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025
  • In a real world sense of course that can’t possibly be true, but the world view of the Puritan religious leaders who founded the Connecticut River Colony in the 1630s still held sway in the late 18th century.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2026
  • When New England became a stop on major international trade routes, the multicultural floodgates opened and Puritan objections to things like fashion, elaborate design, lavish displays of wealth and other things deemed excessive were being continually, casually challenged.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2026

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