Sentence examples for sternly points from inspiring English sources

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Everywhere Lord Kitchener sternly points a monstrously big finger, exclaiming 'I Want You'".

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"You and you and you," he said sternly, pointing to each player on the bench.

The authors of "Sugar Busters! for Kids" somewhat sternly point out that their book is not a diet book at all.

"I just wanted to leave my mark," he told a city official who caught him in the act and sternly pointed to the small signs warning that defacing the wall is forbidden.

The background: We were going to write about someone called Destroyer today until a reader kindly (actually, sternly) pointed out that the musician, an alias for Dan Bejar, has been going for yonks, even if he – the reader, not Bejar – is probably the only person in the UK to have heard of him.

"The military and the politicians received the blame for Pearl Harbor, not educators; in the Sputnik instance, the finger of blame quickly and sternly pointed at the schools".

"So, this is what the Tigers used to kill the Sinhalese people," an older man said sternly, pointing at a characteristically striped Sea Tiger ship.

He'd pointed sternly to the graves of two children who had drowned at sea.

"She doesn't want to shoot?" says JD sternly at one point.

"When the Gun Draws" is in part a protest song against the US government's gun-control policy, told sternly from the point of view of a bullet.

"Any spurious attempts to enter by side doors, fire escapes or ventilating shafts will be met by force," announced a cardboard lobby cut-out of Hitchcock, pointing sternly at his watch.

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