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.
• The wake takes place at her large, austere house, where light flows through the windows but the walls are cement and the emotional chill is inescapable.
  — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2024
• Their austere expressions read like a quiet challenge to a society that refuses to accept them.
  — New York Times, 19 July 2019
• Her father was a well-to-do merchant but ran an austere household, toughening up his seven children with meager diets and few comforts.
  — Kate Siber, Outside Online, 24 July 2019
• Famed for the ferocity of its inhabitants, the region maintains a rough, austere beauty.
  — Thomas Linkel, National Geographic, 18 July 2019
• The cylindrical, two-story crew habitat rises above the austere environment.
  — David Kelly, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2019
• The guardianship laws are legal codes based on an austere Saudi interpretation of Islam.
  — Megan Specia, New York Times, 24 June 2019
• West clearly has a design aesthetic—austere monochrome minimalism—that shows in his Yeezy clothing and Adidas shoe lines.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 10 July 2019
• Its confident, modernist lines are complemented by a less austere chorus of sloping roof, small lattice windows, curvaceous chimney-tops and a weather vane.
  — The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019
• The scene might have sparked memories of more austere outposts in Afghanistan and Iraq for veterans of those wars, right down to the diesel fumes of the generators and the seven-minute showers.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 7 July 2019
• Spreading Muslim rule introduced a more austere, though no less impressive, architecture of arches and jaalis (stone lattice windows).
  — The Economist, 13 July 2019
• The austere, ethereal grids of Agnes Martin come to mind, and Hur’s works generate a similar expansive feeling.
  — Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 1 July 2019
• 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
• Vouvray can range from dry to off-dry to rich and austere and can age for a century.
  — Johnny Noakes, Hartford Courant, 11 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024