Sentence examples for sternly was from inspiring English sources
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.
My modest retirement savings, she's telling me sternly, are earning nothing.
This, he says sternly, is a public life, not a private one.
Cathy is not an insurgent soul, and Moore respects that; compare her with the Annette Bening character in "American Beauty," and you realize how sternly Bening was nudged, by the sardonic comedy of that movie, toward the brink of a cartoon.
"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".
