How to Use stark in a Sentence

stark

1 of 2 adjective
  • This tragedy serves as a stark reminder of the dangers of drunk driving.
  • His criticism of the movie stands in stark contrast to the praise it has received from others.
  • There is a stark difference between them.
  • The room was decorated with stark simplicity.
  • The long-term irony could be stark.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The shift couldn’t have been more stark.
    — Sean Sennett, HollywoodReporter, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The price action is just as stark.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
  • There are a few stark outliers.
    — Sean Nevin, NBC news, 24 Apr. 2026
  • This is the stark line where childhood dies.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 27 May 2026
  • That gap isn’t as stark elsewhere.
    — Anna Demeo, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • Who wants to see something stark in stark times.
    — Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Joe’s threat profile is less stark.
    — Joe Reid, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The split screen couldn’t be starker.
    — Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • But the case laid bare a stark divide on the high court.
    — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The park is renowned for its wave-like dunes made of stark-white gypsum sand.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 1 July 2026
  • The car rides up are stark in their differences.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 5 Feb. 2026
  • There’s also a stark shift in opinion by age.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026
  • In this image, the stark white studio is gone.
    — Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 18 May 2026
  • The shades popped against her stark white custom Alaïa dress.
    — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 4 June 2026
  • This was a stark change from her signature long black hair.
    — Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 27 Feb. 2026
  • The machine stood in its own room, looking stark and alone.
    — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2026
  • This is a slim and stark testament.
    — Dan Sheehan, Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The red light is also soothing and not as stark as a white light.
    — Kelsey Kunik, Parents, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The contrast with the day before was stark.
    — Spriha Srivastava, CNBC, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The effects of that are pretty stark.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Off the ball, the problems were equally stark.
    — Sukhman Singh, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The effects are starker in some places.
    — Stephen Bagwell, The Conversation, 26 June 2026
  • But there are grounds to question whether the effect would be so stark.
    — Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The gap in perception is stark.
    — Glenn Llopis, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • The data paints a stark picture.
    — Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 13 Feb. 2026

stark

2 of 2 adverb
  • If the puzzle book was to enter the world stark-naked, the two men would duck beneath a cloak of pseudonymity.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Nov. 2025
  • The president of the United States is stark-raving mad.
    — Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Around the turn of the last century, our place, which is now surrounded by woods, sat stark on a bald hilltop with nary a tree in sight.
    — Vogue, 21 June 2018
  • But the climactic sequence of Midsommar features one of the last surviving Americans running stark naked across the noonday greensward with nobody obviously chasing him.
    — Ross Douthat, National Review, 25 July 2019
  • Kruger’s stark, carefully laid out design cleverly turns the façade of an innocuous strip-building into the memory of a Greek temple, the classical style in which art museums were once conventionally built.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 14 June 2018

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