Sentence examples for a very stern from inspiring English sources

It was a very stern warning.

He had a very stern face.

"It's a very stern verdict," he admitted to the state broadcaster, NHK.

The truth is a very stern taskmistress, and I can't adhere to it.

They certainly wrote a very stern letter, well not stern....more apologetic..., but they did write a letter.

These days, when I hear that, I follow up with a very stern and somewhat threatening: "Are you coming though?

The New Republic ran a very long, very stern editorial — mostly by me, if memory serves — entitled "Deep Throat's Children," slamming Bradlee for, among other sins, creating a "culture" of "swaggering bravado" that valued, above all, "the big, sensational stunner of a story".

He was from a religious Scottish upbringing, very stern, and he would have hated reading those emails.

"I lost my dad three years ago, and he was from a religious Scottish upbringing, very stern, and he would have hated reading those emails, and I remember thinking: 'Thank God my dad didn't have to see this.' But the way Gordon reacted to me that day, it was as bad as telling my dad.

It's the best thing she's done, very stern with a subdued satirical edge.

Be very stern, like a teacher would be.