How do you use stark in a sentence?

(the adjective stark means stripped of ornament, bare, plain, with the connotation of black and white, unrelieved, or naked)

Elizabeth told the stark truth and it was painful to Mary.

The stark reality was that John had had a alcohol problem for years.

We were awed by the stark beauty of the desert.

Their senior prank was to run stark naked through the crowded cafeteria.

In his fifties he was a little crazy, but in later years he went stark raving mad.

"The ebony black woodcarving stood out in stark relief to the white painted alcove."