Example Sentences

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And it’s not just this group of films; Hollywood remains puritanically squeamish when it comes to menstruation.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2019

The whole story concludes with a satirical poem that uses double-entendres to poke fun at the puritanically intolerant.

From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2019

One NES game assumed you were puritanically obsessed about recreating unremarkable MLB lineups.

From Golf Digest • Mar. 26, 2018

This is an amazing accomplishment, as Apple runs probably the most puritanically walled-garden site on the web.

From Salon • Mar. 9, 2013

The Free Level seemed some ancient Bagdad, some Bourbon Court, some Monte Carlo set here, an oasis of flourishing vice in a desert of sterile law-made, machine-executed efficiency and puritanically ordered life.

From City of Endless Night by Hastings, Milo M. (Milo Milton)