Sentence examples for stern customs from inspiring English sources
A stern customs officer took off my furry shapka and poked at the still warm lining, looking for diamonds my parents might have hidden there.
Just days before Waterloo, in fact, customs officers received a stern reminder to search all vessels arriving in British ports and confiscate any letters "carried illegally to and from Ostend" – the principal port of access to Belgium.
The smuggled dogs were not declared to customs officials, who issued a stern warning to Depp and Heard.
We hand-carried the spare instruments through airport customs without difficulty, unless you count the stern questioning about the gluten-free cookies my wife sent along with us.
That brought stern rebukes.
Under the stern gaze of passport officials and the even sterner gaze of television cameras, the two British citizens, fresh off a morning flight from London on Tuesday, passed through customs at Kennedy International Airport separately and came to separate conclusions.
