Sentence examples for sternly for from inspiring English sources

He spoke up, sometimes sternly, for the straphanger and the signal repairman alike.

When dishes arrived, he looked at them sternly for a moment.

The judge said Kim Hong Up, 53, must be punished sternly for having exploited his status as a son of the president.

But the priest had lectured him sternly — for without a god, a person would just be a shifting collection of memories".

The Republicans may believe there is honor in the Party's unpopular insistence upon a stern standard of morality in loose times, but those who have stood too sternly for anything in the '90s have suffered for their sanctimony.

He eschewed what he described as political correctness and sternly called for the state to "curtail that type of behavior" by taking away assistance if the parents of children receiving subsidized lunches don't show up for school conferences.

And Wolfgang became very serious when he said sternly "…and for the sake of scientific progress, we will not stop discussing ideas openly with colleagues.

They shall drink scalding water and be sternly punished for their unbelief" (6:70).

No less chastening was the experience of watching Matt Drudge, in conversation with Brian Lamb the same day, sternly criticize Fox for cutting off the final moments of the Bush news conference for Paris Hilton's reality series.

I was sternly told off for inappropriate language.

He sternly criticizes progressives for not taking their opponents' full measure.