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Example sentences for: austere

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The 130-km (78-mile) drive northeast of Calgary on Highway 9 takes you through wheat-growing country where you may see the farming communities of Hutterites, an austere religious sect originally from Slovakia, often persecuted for their pacifism.
Lombok: Craft skills in Lombok tend to be devoted to household objects that can have a somewhat austere functional beauty.
This is the oldest theatrical form, strictly speaking, and also the most austere and demanding.
Funds ran out before Michelangelo’s planned façade could embellish the austere barn-like exterior.
The reporter--a demurely austere product of colonial missionary parents--was on her first assignment and she was, in fact, completely new to this area.