Examples of 'sternly' in a sentence
Meaning of "sternly"
sternly (adverb): In English, 'sternly' is an adverb used to describe the manner in which something is done strictly or with a serious attitude. It indicates harshness or seriousness in one's tone or behavior
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- In a stern manner.
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I was sternly told girls do not play baseball.
I am composing some very sternly worded letters.
And he sternly orders them to silence as well.
And that you warned them sternly.
Then he sternly ordered all of us to follow him.
I will investigate carefully and punish them sternly.
Yangying spoke sternly with a righteous appearance.
Gambling and drinking were sternly policed.
He sternly reprimanded the other dying thief.
He was interrupted and sternly removed by the devil major.
I sternly told you to stay put.
We sent them a very sternly worded arms invoice.
And sternly deprive the other half of them.
The children look sternly into the camera.
I will tell him off sternly.
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I ought to have sternly said to you at the beginning.
But the instructor froze his expression sternly.
He dealt sternly with political prisoners.
No one showed you the right path sternly.
We could sternly ask them to leave.
To comply with a demand so sternly made.
They sternly warned such people.
What custom has sternly divided.
They sternly command her to leave these sinful people.
Anna glanced sternly at him.
He called the name of his youngest son quite sternly.
He looked at me sternly and said he was disappointed.
Please do not speak so sternly to me.
After that she sternly and unequivocally told me to go away.
Let me put it more sternly.
He speaks very sternly to my publishers.
Jesus warned them sternly.
Or lecture me sternly somewhere private.
A laboratory assistant looks sternly on.
By speaking sternly or appealing to reason.
She reminded him sternly.
Half to be sternly deprived.
Sternly demand a refund.
As her husband sternly counting.
She sternly accuses me.
This proposal was sternly rejected.
Scott sternly orders her never to use that word again.
The culprits will be dealt with sternly and punished.
His host sternly warned him that he must not do that.
Breathing too sternly.
Our country has sternly condemned the perpetration of terrorist acts.
Unveiled stands truth and looks thee sternly in the face.
And she sternly admonished me to lay off the cream in my coffee.
From the wall in my room tenderly and sternly into my eyes.
But he sternly repressed his feelings and recommenced his descent.
