Sentence examples for was extremely stern from inspiring English sources

I remember thinking that Toshiko was extremely stern when I first encountered her in the ceramic studio in the basement of 185 Nassau.

When the two eventually met again, Brookstein says, he announced: "'Your album's going to be an album of covers.' He was extremely stern.

He announces she's not going to be prosecuted for her use of a private email server when she was Secretary of State, but then added a stern rebuke to her behaviour, saying she'd been extremely careless.

The TV show To Catch a Predator didn't calm any fears, nor did the many state Attorneys General who issued stern warnings about a problem that, statistically, turned out to be extremely rare.

But while avoiding any criminal charge, Clinton received a stern rebuke from FBI Director James B. Comey, who said she and her aides had been "extremely careless" in their handling of sensitive classified material in their email exchanges.

His mother was equally stern.

Beside her was a stern old matron.

Eric Weichardt was a stern, conceited Tybalt.

Fine, it was a stern warning.

The judge was old, stern and irritable.

The reaction was equally stern in the United States.