Sentence examples for stern I from inspiring English sources

Next to a woman so stern, I see a smile now and then.

He told the writer, Marlow Stern, "I just didn't think I needed school.

His face being rather stern, I expected a homily of some sort, but I was quite wrong.

Where is Jake Ballard?" Later there was a loud, stern "I'm fine" and another trademarked repetition, the last line hitting like a stomped foot: "Don't.

Stern: I think it crosses basketball.

Stern: I think it was a mélange.

I ask a friend, "Do you mind if I emulate your grandfather's fashion preferences?" He looks away, but my face is stern: "Can I please acquire his hand-me-downs?

Cook County Judge Neera Walsh began the hearing with a stern warning: "I know I don't have to remind anybody in the courtroom that there will be no outbursts of any kind, regardless of what happens today, right?" Jacques's supporters looked at each other, trying to decode the judge's words.

I have about 60 staff; as a boss I'm approachable and stern, but I'll also give people a go and I'll back them.

Marnie Stern: When I was little I'd listen to the classic rock station but while I was at NYU doing journalism I was really just into that, the studying really.

I thought she was so stern when I was a kid, but by the time I got to high school, I recognized that her demeanor was rooted in a fight to keep on living.