Sentence examples for sternly refused from inspiring English sources

Pevsner speaks in glowing terms of its reticulated tracery, mullioned and transomed windows and octagonal abaci, but though I rattled its ramshackle doors they sternly refused to open.

Miliband has sternly refused to discuss possible scenarios after the next election, or the chance of forming "a coalition of the losers" if, as seems most likely, Labour comes second in terms of seats.

When Shred pressed Marv for a sale, Marv sternly refused.

Some of the time, they actually dress like cops, and they sternly refuse to engage in lounge-lizard repartee — they hardly engage at all.

"I do not connect with Barbie dolls," she told me sternly, "so I refused.

In Buenos Aires, the cardinal showed real compassion for HIV victims, and he sternly rebuked priests who refused to baptize children born out of wedlock.

The title refers to an interchange with a judge when Bourne was once on trial: Bourne was sternly asked to remove his hat in court and refused, because it "goes with the shoes".

"We want everybody to understand that there is an imminent danger," he said sternly, noting that some people near the town of Nutrioso, where the fire had reached the periphery, had refused to leave.