puritan|puritans in English

noun

[Pu·ri·tan || 'pjʊərɪtən]

one who is strict on religious issues; one who is strict on moral issues; one who supports modesty and simplicity

Use "puritan|puritans" in a sentence

1. We're not all descended from the Puritans.

2. Despite his apparent liberal views, he's really something of a puritan/he has a puritan streak.

3. We think of the Puritans as staid people.

4. The Puritans eventually replaced Bilboes with wooden stocks

5. The Puritans became fugitives in quest of liberty.

6. 13 Despite his apparent liberal views, he's really something of a puritan/he has a puritan streak.

7. The Puritan exclusive localism breeded Isolationism.

8. And we became a nation of strait-laced Puritans.

9. The Puritans left England to escape being persecuted.

10. 16 The proverbially dour New England Puritan.

11. Lecture 18 - Street Wars of Religion: Puritans and Arminians Overview

12. Contemporary academic puritans regard studentprofessor intimacies as inherently exploitative.

13. He was neither a hypocrite nor a puritan.

14. She came from a very serious, Puritan family.

15. Some have charged that the Puritans were sexually repressed and inhibited.

16. His dissolute life is inconsistent with his Puritan upbringing.

17. His dissolute life is inconsistent with his puritan upbringing.

18. As Puritans, the Ironsides often attributed their glory in battle to God.

19. The English Civil War is also called the Puritan Revolution.

20. During the 18th century, Puritan zeal found a new outlet.

21. 2 His dissolute life is inconsistent with his puritan upbringing.

22. 3 His dissolute life is inconsistent with his Puritan upbringing.

23. He was also a hypocrite, a puritan, and a racist.

24. Bykov had forgotten that Malinin was something of a puritan.

25. During the seventeenth century, the Puritans destroyed many decorations in English churches.