Sentence examples for tested sternly from inspiring English sources
Like any coach/player relationship, this one was tested, sternly.
Between Picasso's conservative critique and Duchamp's radical one, abstract art was sternly tested.
Yet the schedule Australia face over the next six months will sternly test his vulnerable back and wrist, while it will also reveal if anyone actually does have an emergency management plan.
Instead, they tested Coach Mike D'Antoni's team sternly, wiping out all but 2 points of a 16-point first-half deficit before the end of the third quarter, then all but 4 of a subsequent 17-point deficit in the fourth quarter, mostly because of their league-best defense.
For example, shortly after Mr. Kim took over, a Chinese vice minister of foreign affairs, Fu Ying, visited Pyongyang, North Korea's capital, and sternly warned him not to proceed with a ballistic missile test.
Or will vicars test parishioners on their sincerity before they are allowed these details – just as they might sternly quiz them on their religious beliefs before allowing their children into the local oversubscribed CofE school?
"No," he replied sternly.
She looked at me sternly.
"Look," she says sternly.
