How to Use austere in a Sentence

austere

adjective

• They lived an austere life in the country.
• He was known for his austere style of writing.
• They choose austere furnishings for the office.
• That would likely be too austere an amnesty to attract much Democratic support in the Senate.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 24 May 2018
• The president might be very honest, and by all indications López Obrador is a very austere and honest guy.
  — Madeleine Ngo, Vox, 2 July 2018
• The vastness and austere beauty can leave you slack-jawed, and tourism is now the country’s second-biggest industry, after mining.
  — Jason Florio, Smithsonian, 22 May 2018
• The result, which opens today and is on view through October 7, is sober, austere, and almost hermetic from a distance.
  — Giovanna Dunmall, Curbed, 15 June 2018
• To be clear, Khosrowshahi has conceded that drivers’ working conditions have grown too austere.
  — Julianne Tveten, The New Republic, 31 May 2018
• While Junzi might serve the dishes its founders grew up eating, the food isn’t the only reason why the restaurants feel like a shinier version of my childhood in the austere North.
  — Mary Wang, Vogue, 26 June 2018
• His single-occupancy cell is austere, measuring just 7 square meters (75 square feet), with a squat toilet beneath a shower.
  — Rebecca Wright, CNN, 19 Oct. 2024
• The rooms feel austere and indulgent, while Italian flea market finds rub shoulders with bespoke pieces crafted with an ecclesiastical bent.
  — Paul Jebara, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2024
• That implies a more austere stance than nationalists have previously advocated.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• The architects’ design riffs on the austere geometry of the pyramids, with its sharply intersecting limestone planes and triangular gardens.
  — Amy Bradford, Architectural Digest, 30 Sep. 2024
• In this austere, arid world, brown was the coin of the realm.
  — David Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
• The store, the brand’s first outside Japan, is calm and austere.
  — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2021
• Eni’s response to the oil-price crash of 2014 was the most austere among the majors.
  — Sarah Kent, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2018
• The shrines themselves are austere and hard to see from the pathways.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 23 Feb. 2017
• The show itself maintained the austere tone of the Mueller report.
  — Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, 1 July 2019
• The verdict: The Jiffy brownie mix was, in a word, austere.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 8 Mar. 2023
• The rest of his crew lived aboveground, in austere barracks.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2021
• The cabin is roomy and handsome—if a bit more austere than the S4 cockpit.
  — Arthur St. Antoine, Car and Driver, 15 Dec. 2022
• As should this unique red blend and a classic, austere rosé of pinot noir from the Finger Lakes.
  — Washington Post, 21 May 2021
• The austere room is lined by wood panels from the floor to about the high walls' midpoint and then plain white walls above.
  — Aysha Bagchi, USA TODAY, 1 May 2024
• The space is austere and solemn, with beige walls and icy climate control.
  — David Maurice Smith, Smithsonian, 23 Aug. 2019
• Gazans observe an austere Eid al-Fitr in the shadow of war.
  — Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024
• If there is one way to avoid a dining room that is cold and austere, get some cool old knick knacks.
  — Leilani Marie Labong, SFChronicle.com, 13 Mar. 2020
• Withers’s sound reaches back to the austere roots of the blues and country music.
  — Reginald Dwayne Betts Kiese Makeba Laymon Carina Del Valle Schorske Dessa Irina Aleksander Sam Dolnick Mark Binelli Maggie Jones Rob Hoerburger Jamie Lauren Keiles Devin Gordon Jazmine Hughes Jenna Wortham Jade Chang Taffy Brodesser-Akner Kaitlyn Greenidge Rowan Ricardo Phillips Michael Paterniti Wesley Morris Ismail Muhammad Anthony Giardina, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2020
• The Venetian blinds on the windows also felt austere to them.
  — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 7 Apr. 2023
• Looking at this room of Matisses, this is one of the more austere ones.
  — New York Times, 17 June 2019
• In the age-old battle between the austere and the lavish, sometimes more is just more.
  — Sadie Stein, ELLE Decor, 23 May 2018

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024