Sentence examples for sternly are from inspiring English sources

My modest retirement savings, she's telling me sternly, are earning nothing.

Up, sternly is the cry.

This, he says sternly, is a public life, not a private one.

The return to the Abbey of viewers' favourite Thomas – "Acting Sergeant, I believe," Carson reminded us sternly – was a boon.

He acknowledged his love for and debt to Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco – even more to his countryman Kafka, who, he would remind you sternly, was a comic writer, an inspirer of laughter in the dark.

There will be yelling tonight about how loudly or sternly we are or should be speaking to Them.

"Mr. Gershwin, Bergg said sternly, "music is music".

(Whether he edits it sternly enough is another question).

PRESIDENT (sternly): It's not a matter of resilience.

("No", Henry said sternly, "nothing is locked within") There is an unspoken attraction to a manservant in Ireland.

"If you have longer meetings," he said sternly, "it's more appropriate that you park a little bit away".