How to Use purely in a Sentence

purely

adverb

• It was purely and simply a matter of greed.
• The organization's mission, purely and simply, is to provide food to people who need it.
• They met purely by accident.
• Was the name changed purely to get a berth on the Lido?
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2023
• The fate of a historic season was purely in the hands of a 19-year-old.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 30 Mar. 2024
• Henry turned off that new gospel to leave purely the sound of the mitts.
  — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• But here too there is more to it than the purely post-colonial and racist reading.
  — Ed Meza, Variety, 18 Feb. 2024
• This list is purely for fun and may apply to first-borns of any gender.
  — Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
• This is not to say that this cyclical conflict is purely based on age.
  — Sho Dewan, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• In fact, some of her finest looks were purely monochromatic.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2023
• The mission was billed purely as a hunt for the Titanic, and media was kept entirely in the dark.
  — Sam Blum, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2023
• The next person to sell a purely AI fantasy for top dollar?
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2024
• The actor had signed on to the project purely from his excitement over Transformers.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 12 June 2023
• That is purely a guy during all the episodes and writing everything, and just stress eating like crazy.
  — Daniel S. Levine, Peoplemag, 11 Aug. 2023
• Catholicism is not a religion purely of the head, or a set of propositions one assents to.
  — Phil Klay, Time, 17 Aug. 2023
• Now, some teenagers and their parents are contemplating a life lived purely in the real world.
  — Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 June 2023
• Yes, its grandeur can be preserved on Instagram, but the real delight of it is purely present tense.
  — Ella Riley-Adams, New York Times, 4 May 2023
• The dams were used purely for power generation, not to store water for cities or farms.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• And the whales weren’t just rubbing their bodies along the ocean floor for purely practical purposes.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 May 2023
• Does that mean that the Qatar portion is a purely a financial involvement?
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 20 Jan. 2024
• So the whistling and ringing in the ears caused by tinnitus is not purely a disease of the brain’s auditory system.
  — Anton Benz, Scientific American, 13 July 2023
• Some leaned on maternal instinct, and some acted purely out of anger.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 18 Nov. 2023
• Any elections in the states are purely American business.
  — Liz Friden, Fox News, 27 Oct. 2023
• This fight is purely about changing behavior beyond the borders of his state.
  — Conor Dougherty, New York Times, 30 May 2023
• His concerns at that point, Cerf says, were purely financial.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2023
• This is a purely quantum phenomenon in which the BEC enters a state that is both excited and not.
  — Charles D. Brown Ii, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
• This four-pack of pink charging cords adds a little fun to something purely functional.
  — Erika Reals, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2023
• Of course, tool use doesn’t have to be confined to purely practical purposes.
  — Ryan McRae, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2023
• Neither Donna nor Cliff were purely evil in trying to murder Ben.
  — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• Yu and co’s work is purely theoretical and the results will need to be confirmed and reproduced in a lab.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024