STARK in a Sentence
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24 example sentences for STARK, such as:
1. The hills stood stark against the winter sky.
2. His room was clean and tidy, but rather stark.
3. A stark, bewildered feeling, as of death, came over me.
4. The stark jagged rocks were silhouetted against the sky.
5. The movie shows the stark realities of life in the ghetto.
2. His room was clean and tidy, but rather stark.
3. A stark, bewildered feeling, as of death, came over me.
4. The stark jagged rocks were silhouetted against the sky.
5. The movie shows the stark realities of life in the ghetto.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of STARK
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stark
a. devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
ad. completely
Classic Sentence:
1 I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive.
2 He consented, and I immediately stripped myself stark naked, and went down softly into the stream.
3 They were stark naked, men, women, and children, round a fire, as I could discover by the smoke.
4 But strangest of all is the circumstance, that in more instances than one, when the body has been recovered, not a single mark of violence is discernible; the man being stark dead.
5 A stark, bewildered feeling, as of death, came over me.
6 Grandmother went on talking in her polite Virginia way, not admitting their stark need or her own remissness, until Jake arrived with the hamper, as if in direct answer to Mrs. Shimerda's reproaches.
7 His room was clean and tidy, but rather stark.
8 When they came to the open place where the trees had been felled, the light flooded in rather stark.
9 That was before he broke the pledge; but afterwards he would always take drink when he was ashore, and a little drink would send him stark, staring mad.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
Context Highlight In II. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
10 Scarcely had I recovered my senses than I saw you stripped, stark naked, and this was the height of my horror, consternation, grief, and despair.
11 Zero not wishing to go stark naked, clothed himself in vanity.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
12 Stiff and stark sat the child there with her matches, of which one bundle had been burnt.
13 He was clad only in his long night-dress, and his swollen ankles and ungainly feet protruded starkly from beneath it.
Example Sentence:
1 The hills stood stark against the winter sky.
2 The author paints a stark picture of life in a prison camp.
3 These issues have created a stark fault line within the Peace Process.
4 She faced the stark choice of backing the new scheme or losing her job.
5 In the cold dawn light, the castle looked stark and forbidding.
6 The movie shows the stark realities of life in the ghetto.
7 The stark jagged rocks were silhouetted against the sky.
8 The contrast with nearby countries is stark; Sweden and Finland, although not even members of NATO, are working hard to boost their defences and galvanise their people by issued leaflets.
9 But the feminist agitator was a stark reminder that technocratic central bankers are not immune from public anger over eurozone economic policy.
10 The weeping figure with his head bowed as the earlier death sentence was passed, stood in stark contrast to the confident and charismatic man who brought down democracy in May 2000.
11 These theories contrast starkly with the reality of everyday life.