How to use "puritanical" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "puritanical" in popular movie and book plots

  • The baby doesn't survive the ordeal and the poor girl ends up sheltered by a puritanical farm family.  - Way Down East (1935 film)
  • He tells Kate that he and Katya had pretended to be married in order to be able to share a room in the more puritanical early 1960s.  - 45 Years
  • The Sparrows begin imposing their puritanical views upon King's Landing by ridding it of all "sins".  - Game of Thrones (season 5)
  • For Anna is not a degenerate, but a high spirited girl driven from home by her father's puritanical cruelty.  - Anna Lucasta (play)
  • Phillip and Dieter nearly suffocate hiding their gay sexual identity in the face of puritanical small town MidwesternS.  - The Toilers and the Wayfarers
  • The puritanical pastor leads confirmation classes and gives his pubescent children a guilty conscience over apparently small transgressions.  - The White Ribbon
  • Small-town New Zealand in the 1950s is puritanical on the surface but depraved to its depths.  - The Scarecrow (1982 film)
  • The bishop and his puritanical assistant Barnabus Goche appear.  - The Herbal Bed
  • Proctor's sternly puritanical wife, Elizabeth, is sick and has not shared his bed for months, and he was seduced by his maid, Abigail.  - The Crucible (1957 film)
  • Mr Wentworth’s family is a puritanical one, far from the Europeans' habits.  - The Europeans
  • He is a sober and puritanical soul who has been working in Constantinople for two weeks and she is on her way to join him.  - Parker Pyne Investigates
  • Morec has created an ultra-conservative and puritanical society that is oppressive and judgmental of its fellow citizens.  - The Man Who Japed

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