Sentence examples for sternly is from inspiring English sources

Up, sternly is the cry.

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

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

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.

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

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

When I was at school teachers said sternly: "Peter is weak at maths".

"You are a guest in a private Preserve," says another, adding, almost sternly, "This is not a public park".

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

Dalzell observed them for a while and then remarked, a bit sternly, "This is not material culture," and got in his car.