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How to use the word starkly in a Sentence?

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That affected me mentally and my difficult situation contrasted starkly the success and aura of Kasper Dolbergs, my teammate, i took it out on Kasper Dolbergs without having any reason to do so, maybe a bit because of jealousy. Instead of trying to battle on the pitch to provide Kasper Dolbergs with competition for places, I reacted stupidly towards Kasper Dolbergs.

Lamine Diaby-Fadiga

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

That starkly quantifies how important it is.

Hunt Allcott

Found on CNN
5 years ago

As the murders on the streets of Paris remind us so starkly ISIL (Islamic State) is not some remote problem thousands of miles away, it is a direct threat to our security at home and abroad.

Prime Minister David Cameron

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Like everything else we try in Utah liquor laws, it may sound a little strange to one side or the other, because the lines have been drawn so starkly in the past, it's really important to have some new, out-of-the-box thinking to try to have a breakthrough.

Kraig Powell

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If you limit this along national lines, it would clearly be a disappointment because it would show quite starkly that the ECB is running up against its limits, draghi knows that the announcement itself will be the most important thing. I hope he is bold.

Christian Odendahl

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

“Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly rendered. The transparency of one culture overlays another, and another, to form the daguerreotype of possibilities that is homo sapiens, interacting, almost like the elements themselves, with the created world and modified only by context and its imperatives.”-- from Circles and Arcs

Rosy Cole

added by anonymous
9 years ago

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