How to use purely in a sentence

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• Mathematical laws can be proved purely through mathematics, without scientific experimentation.From the entry law
• The phone on the film set doesn't work, it's purely decorative.From the entry decorative
• We don't often trump up products purely for the virtue of being "new".From the entry trump up
• The flip of a fair coin is purely random.From the entry random
• It was purely a CIA operation, door to door.From the entry door to door
• He was motivated purely by self-interest.From the entry motivate
• The Tewahedo tradition brings all this worldwide heritage together in a synthesis that makes it purely Ethiopian.2022 January 12, Alemayehu Wassie, Demel Teketay, Mengistie Kindu, Mulugeta Lemenih, Thomas Knoke, Thomas Schneider, State of the Art in…. From the entry Tewahedo
• "I mean, purely for theraphy research purposes, of course." She winked at me.2020, Kristy Woodson Harvey, Feels Like Falling, page 311. From the entry decult
• The evidence given for this suggestion is purely anecdotal, not to mention largely underresearched elsewhere.2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 84. From the entry underresearched
• Chinese officials have repeatedly said the Belt and Road is purely an economic project with peaceful intent.2018 December 19, Maria Abi-Habib, “China’s ‘Belt and Road’ Plan in Pakistan Takes a Military Turn”, in New York Times. From the entry Belt and Road
• Yet "the 12", as they are known, are not purely fictional.2018 September 2, Benji Wilson, “Jodie Comer on Killing Eve — the new TV series from Fleabag writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge”, in The Times…. From the entry extragovernmental
• For the majority of owners, its four-wheel-drive endeavours will be of purely academic interest.2017 November 10, “Land Rover Discovery review – SUV's the finest car in the Landy”, in Scottish Daily Record. From the entry academic
• A few widely publicized companies set up ESOPs purely as defenses against hostile takeovers.2016 September 8, John Case, “The Life-Changing Magic of Turning Employees Into Shareholders”, in The Atlantic. From the entry ESOP
• The idea that war and conflicts are purely rational, calculable considerations lives on today.2015, Katrine Marcal, Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?, →ISBN, page 62. From the entry arm-wrestle
• If you judge countries purely by their mountainous terrain, Finland is a bit of a loser.2015 December 18, Adam Taylor, “The Norwegian plan to gift Finland a mountain”, in The Washington Post. From the entry eight-thousander
• A third example would be a speculant that enters into the market purely on a direction view.2014, Peter Leoni, The Greeks and Hedging Explained. From the entry speculant
• Obviously at my age my interest was purely paternal but my younger self was head over heels.2013, Dennis Coughlin, Passport to Life, →ISBN, page 155. From the entry head over heels
• Polyester thread was used in appropriate colours, the stitching treated as purely structural and not re-embroidery.2012, Sheila Landi, Textile Conservator's Manual, →ISBN, page 301. From the entry re-embroidery
• Huntford accuses Scott of choosing manhaul as his favoured method of travel purely to be macho.2012, Captain R. F. Scott, The Last Expedition. From the entry manhaul
• The question of how many weapons are required for credible deterrence against India is purely academic.2011 May 16, “Pakistan's AQ Khan: My Nuclear Manifesto”, in Newsweek. From the entry academic
• He continued chopping, and his grin was downright rascallike, purely unsuited to a God-fearing Presbyterian.2011, Linda Lael Miller, Daniel's Bride. From the entry rascallike
• Few male fans were on hand Tuesday night, which according to Bieberites is purely due to envy.2010 September 15, Jen Skerritt, “OMG!”, in Winnipeg Free Press. From the entry bieberite
• Whitely (that is, purely, blankly, and voidly), the moon cleanses the world of human industry — almost.2008, Clayton Eshleman, The Grindstone of Rapport: A Clayton Eshleman Reader, page 417. From the entry blankly
• Westin hotels ensure that taking a Donald Trump on the Southside is a purely pleasurable experience.2008, Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, South Dublin: How To Get By On, Like, 10,000 Euro A Day (humor), Dublin: Penguin Ireland, →ISBN, →OCLC. From the entry Donald Trump
• The view that Navajo neuropathy was purely inherited continued to have its adherents.2006 November 20, Judy Pasternak, “Oases in Navajo Desert Contained 'A Witch's Brew'”, in Los Angeles Times. From the entry founder effect
• But, beyond gross morphologic observations this is purely speculative and not tested by studies in cobblestoned monolayers.2005, Carolyn E Patterson, Perspectives on lung endothelial barrier function. From the entry cobblestoned
• The entelechial motive is one of the most purely human motives in Burke.2003, Kenneth Burke, edited by William H. Rueckert and Angelo Bonadonna, On Human Nature: A Gathering while Everything Flows, 1967–1984…. From the entry entelechial
• Assessments of H.D.'s early poetry have tended to concentrate on her purely as an Imagist.2002, Richard Aldington, An Imagist at War: The Complete War Poems of Richard Aldington. From the entry imagist
• On the first view, emotions are purely biological phenomena. . . .2001, Ronald De Sousa, “Moral Emotions,”, in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, volume 4, number 2, page 109. From the entry arational
• Particles in the quantum realm seem to move about acausally in a purely random and statistical fashion.1999, Kip K. Sewell, The cosmic sphere. From the entry acausally
• It is the dream of a purely heterological thought at its source.1994, Christopher Norris, Truth and the Ethics of Criticism, →ISBN, page 50. From the entry heterological
• To what extent is a discourse purely single-voiced and without any objectal character, possible in literature?1984, Tzvetan Todorov, Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogical Principle, →ISBN, page 68. From the entry objectal
• The dialogue "Stilpon" presents the reader with a purely negative view of abderitism.1979, John A[loysius] McCarthy, Christoph Martin Wieland (Twayne's World Authors Series, Germany; TWAS 528), Boston, Mass.: Twayne…. From the entry abderitism
• Finally, with good reason, this psychology aims to be a psychology of a purely empiriological type.1964, Jacques Maritain, “Freudianism and Psychoanalysis [Freudisme et psychanalyse]”, in William Birmingham, Joseph E. Cunneen, editors…. From the entry scientism
• But the report stresses that this comparison, based purely on the total transport performed, oversimplifies the picture.1964 June, “News and Comment: Only 26 per cent of freight on rail”, in Modern Railways, page 369. From the entry oversimplify
• We would like to suggest the purely descriptive term "granular polydendrocyte" instead.1964, JR Dupont, H Sprinz, “The neurovegetative periphery of the gut. A revaluation with conventional technics in the light of modern…. From the entry polydendrocyte

Meaning of purely

1. adverb Wholly; really, completely.
2. adverb Solely; exclusively; merely, simply.
3. adverb Chastely, innocently; in a sinless manner, without fault.

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Questions about purely in a sentence

How do you use purely in a sentence?

Purely is used as an adverb and adjective. For example: “Mathematical laws can be proved purely through mathematics, without scientific experimentation.”

What is a short sentence with purely?

“I’m purely (J.W.B.).”

What does purely mean?

Purely means wholly; really, completely.