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Example sentences for: spartan

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No more medieval costume dramas or Spartan youths flirting in freeze frame.
Offices are spartan.
Consider the University of Florida's Independent Florida Aggravator (Alligator , the U. of F. mascot); Virginia Tech's Dependent (Independent) ; the University of Illinois' Daily Illiterate (Illini); North Carolina State U.'s Tackynician (Technician); University of North Carolina's Daily Tar Hole (Tar Heel); University of Maryland's Dime-a-Stack (Diamondback; in fact they're free); Southern Methodist University's Daily Compost (Daily Post); Rice University's Rice Thrasher (Rice Thresher); Ohio State University's Latrine (Lantern); Baylor University's Hilariat (Lariat); Michigan State University's Stale News (State News); San Jose State University's Spotted Doily (Spartan Daily); Southern Illinois U.'s Daily Erection (Egyptian); and Indiana U.'s Daily Stupid (Student) .
The calamity spurred the government to launch an emergency program of public-housing construction; spartan new blocks of apartments put cheap and fireproof roofs over hundreds of thousands of heads.
Be warned that the work is often hard, the conditions spartan, and the financial reward nonexistent; but the satisfaction can be immense.