How do you use the word "pure" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "pure" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "pure": We arrived at that plan out of pure desperation, but the book sold well. These days, the motives for marriage are not necessarily pure.

Pure Meaning

/ˈpjʊə(ɹ)/

Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

adjFree of flaws or imperfections; unsullied.

adjFree of foreign material or pollutants.

Sentence Examples

We arrived at that plan out of pure desperation, but the book sold well.

These days, the motives for marriage are not necessarily pure.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

fine fresh light

Antonyms:

impure unsaturated

CEFR Practice Quiz

The water from this mountain spring is completely ____ and free of any pollutants.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The laboratory required ____ water with no trace of minerals or contaminants for the experiment.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English pure, pur, from Old French pur, from Latin pūrus (“clean, free from dirt or filth, unmixed, plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *pewH- (“to cleanse, purify”). Displaced native Middle English lutter (“pure, clear, sincere”) (from Old English hlūtor, hluttor), Middle English skere (“pure, sheer, clear”) (from Old English scǣre and Old Norse skǣr), Middle English schir (“clear, pure”) (from Old English scīr), Middle English smete, smeate (“pure, refined”) (from Old English smǣte; compare Old English mǣre (“pure”)).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Such was the origin of a friendship as warm and pure as any that ancient or modern history records." — 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter VII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

"A guinea is pure gold if it has in it no alloy." — 1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726, →OCLC:

"As for the rest, the air here is said to be purer than elsewhere in Ireland; the water of the Nore is beautifully transparent; and the bogless state of the land helps out the rhyme." — 1837, Leitch Ritchie, Ireland Picturesque and Romantic, volume 1, page 225:

""Hetch Hetchy water is the purest, wholly unpolluted, and forever unpollutable."" — 1908 January 4, John Muir, “The Hetch Hetchy Valley”, in Sierra Club Bulletin, volume VI, number 4:

"Laye hondes sodenly on no man nether be part taker of wother mens synnes. Kepe thy silfe pure." — 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, 1 Timothy v:[22], folio cclxxviij, recto:

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