Sentence examples for rather sternly from inspiring English sources

And he looked at me rather sternly.

He handled Nixon cordially but rather sternly, evidently anxious to not appear too chummy or sympathetic.

I lectured her rather sternly, explaining I do not tolerate tardiness from my cast.

She looked at me with a steely twinkle and said rather sternly: "No.

I thought that she was enjoying herself, but she said, rather sternly, "Let's get this nightmare over with".

("I hope you noticed how I move when I'm ringing," he told me later, rather sternly. "Like flying an airplane").

He did not inquire as to how we -- my friend Stefan and I -- were playing, but rather asked sternly what time we had teed off and then jotted it on his clipboard.

(To most people, that is: after Marianne Faithfull had presented the Most Stylish Designer award to Tanya Sarne, they were accosted on the stairs by a gushing young man who wanted to congratulate Faithfull on how well she'd presented the award. "I think you'll find I collected the award rather well," said Sarne sternly).

"I thought he needed a hat that placed him at the heart of the celebrations rather than on the outside, looking on, sternly".

Rather than suicide bombings, you achieve so much more with a sternly worded letter".

"Rather than being commensals," Dr. Dustin Penn of the University of Utah writes sternly in his "House Mouse Primer," "house mice are usually kleptoparasites, as they have been stealing our food stores since the agricultural revolution".