How to Use unalloyed in a Sentence

unalloyed

adjective
  • My love for my mom was unalloyed.
    — Jack Denton, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026
  • My first impulse is to agree that this is an unalloyed marvel.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2023
  • That is not to say that close community ties are an unalloyed good.
    — The Economist, 14 June 2018
  • That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness.
    — Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Yet China’s growing role in the region has not been an unalloyed good.
    — Shannon K. O’Neil, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Liberals view a larger welfare state as an unalloyed good, but what’s the track record?
    — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Her decision was not an unalloyed win for the male student, who lost on his claim for money damages.
    — David B. Rivkin Jr. and Andrew M. Grossman, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2020
  • Nor are all psychologists convinced phone bans are an unalloyed good.
    — Chris Stokel-Walker, Scientific American, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The countries are to hold talks this week on cementing the truce, which each hailed as an unalloyed victory.
    — Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The ark of history But the march to adaptation is not an unalloyed good.
    — The Economist, 19 Sep. 2019
  • Amazon’s arrival might once have been heralded as an unalloyed good.
    — Alex Baca, Vox, 20 Nov. 2018
  • If the pandemic itself has been an unalloyed bad, its impact on sleep has been much more ambiguous.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 24 June 2020
  • Those replications were more exact than in past efforts, which relied on unalloyed metals in the chip.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 11 June 2020
  • What was absurd, however, was to frame his arrival on British soil as an unalloyed blessing.
    — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Part of the problem stems from the collapse itself, which the West saw as an unalloyed good and a breakthrough for global peace.
    — Seva Gunitsky, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Those recordings give you pure, unalloyed, marvelous Pollini.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Since the moment of his birth, my 5-year-old son has been a near unalloyed joy, but the long journey to that moment was anything but joyous.
    — CNN, 21 June 2022
  • In them, Gruden demonstrates an unalloyed contempt for this mission.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2021
  • For one, as long as the yuan selloff doesn’t turn into a panic, Beijing may not see it as an unalloyed negative.
    — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2022
  • This is not to say that the Israeli accounting suggests unalloyed success.
    — Raphael S. Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2024
  • There is something wistfully bittersweet about the unalloyed faith that the companies placed in what lay ahead.
    — Bob Greene, WSJ, 17 June 2019
  • Yet consistency of message is not an unalloyed good, even when the subject is liberty.
    — Tyler Cowen Bloomberg Opinion (tns), Star Tribune, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Seeing an unalloyed good guy not finish last in their field is an unexpected delight, right, Hal?
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
  • But no one with printer’s ink in his veins can resist it, and even general audiences will find its unalloyed grit endearing.
    — David Mermelstein, WSJ, 27 July 2022
  • If Cronin and Fitch had never made their discovery, that result would have been an unalloyed triumph.
    — Quanta Magazine, 7 Jan. 2016
  • But no one besides pure and unalloyed propagandists wants journalists to be more closed-minded or less willing to listen and learn.
    — Max Moran, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The big uptick in global trade isn’t an unalloyed positive for commodities as long as China is tamping down credit growth.
    — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2018
  • At some point, it is thought, the spacecraft will leave those roiling shoals behind and at last encounter the unalloyed interstellar magnetic field.
    — Tim Folger, Scientific American, 18 June 2022
  • Enjoy this brief clip of their conversation, and Buttigieg’s unalloyed delight at the gift Stewart brings him.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2020
  • In a rare moment of unalloyed agreement, some of the richest and most powerful men in technology are staunchly backing the idea.
    — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Feb. 2026

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