Sentence examples for sternly and from inspiring English sources

Steele spoke to her sternly and calmly.

Woodrow Wilson intervened sternly and in some measure successfully to protect Chinese independence.

I then looked at him sternly and said, "This is no laughing matter.

Can you give me a clue?" "Perseverance," said Halpern sternly and uncryptically.

No, no, no, I repeated sternly, and went on to have a lovely stay.

He looked at me sternly and said, "You must cultivate leisure".

Philip was aloof, sternly reserved, and physically striking tall, fine-featured, and blond hence his name, "the Fair".

But audiences ignored Paul Haggis's sternly beautiful and moving "In the Valley of Elah," too.

For the most part, the Vopos now on the borders of West Berlin are reliable, sternly disciplined, and tough.

There were violent outbreaks that were sternly suppressed, and the gulf between Britain and India became wider than ever before.

It has to be very, very, very sternly resisted, and I couldn't agree with him more about that.