Sentence examples for particularly stern from inspiring English sources

He looked particularly stern, but as he walked toward the kitchen he began to smile.

Books set on farms face a particularly stern test: anyone who has read Stella Gibbons's Cold Comfort Farm may feel a giggle coming on.

His comments were directed at all of the Nets, but he had particularly stern words for Kenyon Martin, who had been all but invisible in Game 2. But this night, Martin needed little prodding.

Pyongyang issued some particularly stern warnings against any effort to include copies of The Interview in balloon bundles, saying that any challenge to its "just physical countermeasures" will trigger "merciless retaliatory strikes".

In a robust encounter in which Olivier Giroud was given some particularly stern treatment, with Charlie Adam fortunate to escape punishment for one second-half challenge, the Gunners failed to sparkle.

Williams remembers being pushed by a particularly stern supervisor to develop her work habits.

However, they suffered from severe vibration, particularly at the stern, at high speeds.

As an academic, he was stern – particularly on bad writing and jargon, for which he had Orwellian distaste.

Any mention of snoek — a long, bony fish that looks like a second cousin of a barracuda — triggers memories in Jeffrey of his childhood, particularly of the stern interrogation of fishmongers that was part of his late mother's search for a specimen up to the standards of her dinner table.

Euro government bonds, particularly from a stern fiscal gatekeeper like Germany, may be seen in a better light; international bargain-hunters may also be looking for euro investments as the currency weakens.

This is the L.P.G.A.'s season-ending event, and whoever wins it will have passed a stern test, particularly if today's tricky 15-mile-an-hour winds persist during the weekend.