Sentence examples for very sternly from inspiring English sources

It has to be very, very, very sternly resisted, and I couldn't agree with him more about that.

But Paddy Ashdown told me very sternly, 'You're too fat.'" Did he have to get bigger trousers?

"What do you do for a living?" I told her I was a writer, and she said very sternly that I could write at home.

Not knowing the circumstances or reason behind my truancy, she ticked me off very sternly and when she finished I burst into tears.

"I'm getting on that bus/ Got to get out of town," he sings, not very sternly, on "Vacation," one of his earliest songs, dating back all of 12 months.

The upshot is that the "agreed framework" is likely to collapse in recriminations, North Korea's leaders will start up their nuclear program again, we will warn them very sternly not to, and they will go ahead anyway.

She didn't exactly think that Merle was a sign or a gift from God — my mother was a member of the Church of Christ, and very religious, even sternly so — but she firmly believed, after Merle was born, that God had answered her prayers during pregnancy.

"This is very symbolic," she said, sternly.

Each week, one of his Iron Chefs -- who rise majestically in clouds of smoke out of the floor, sternly clutching very big knives -- battles a challenger, usually winning.

To Goodman's request for a response, Stern replied sternly: "Thanks very much.

And Wolfgang became very serious when he said sternly "…and for the sake of scientific progress, we will not stop discussing ideas openly with colleagues.