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How to use sternly in a sentence

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His protest involves, however, no retreat into a mythical golden age and sternly rejects any hints of aestheticism.
You are better off dealing sternly with problem employees than continuing to bear the pain.
Tito and his Communist regime acted sternly to suppress nationalist tendencies.
He told prosecutors he was disturbed by the accusations and sternly demanded an explanation.
She looked at her mother sheepishly, while her mother was looking at her very sternly.
They should be sternly tried by human conscience for having slandered us with all sorts of lies and plots.
Not letting her daughter say another word, the Queen bent down over the little girl and gracefully yet sternly took the stone from her hands.
The subject matter seems unlikely to appeal to the party's sternly conservative grass roots.
His symphony is patchy in both structure and content but its sentiments are held sternly in check.
She hurriedly grabbed her papers, gloves, and keys, tucked a stray hair behind her ear and looked sternly at me.
The sun was bright and shone through Jim's window sternly, as if warning that it was time to get out of bed.
Usually they're in the forms of ancestors, mostly benevolent and at worst sternly disapproving.
People might read double meaning into that, the station manager was sternly told.
You're sternly and speciously warned against vandalistically breaking the law.
The former president sternly inquires of Barker whether he knows the best way to lasso a wild horse.
She tipped her sunglasses and looked at me sternly from the pool deck where she was tanning.
The result is winning, shimmering pop that sounds quaint and postmodern, sternly Teutonic and curiously homely at the same time.
She marshalled her players before the game against Pannyok, speaking sternly, grasping each by the shoulder.
But he snuffed it sternly and rose, and the touch of color in his cheeks could easily have been put down to the cold wind outside the chapter house.
He replied sternly, but his voice indicated how badly he was hurting.
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They were out on the gemlike lake now, and Priscilla was sternly instructing Margaret how to handle an oar.
If he caught one pointing for his aerie, he would block the way and bid her sternly begone.
On my telling him that I had not, he knit his brows, and looked at me very sternly.
That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
None of these opinions is held by the sternly scientific mind, like Dr. Osler's, for example.
Turning, Henrietta saw that a black, beady-eyed gentleman was staring at her sternly.
Sergius sternly declined, but was horrified by the definiteness of his desire.
He has to drub along all day, day in and day out, sternly, and be President of all of us.
And he was such a tiny page, He trembled and looked down, For he was sore afraid to seethe great queen sternly frown.
His light eyes were sternly directed to George, but he did not glance at Mrs. Ryle.
My preceptress eyed me sternly, and waxed anew the thread of her discourse.
The orderly stopped pushing his chair and the nurse rushed forward to shush them sternly, but it barely dampened the calls.
They got their meat and have hiked out for that island in the river, Chet said, sternly.
This was sternly denied, and they were ordered to appear at the house of the boor.
He gave the wheel a reckless twist, and Le Moyne called him to time sternly.
At ten minutes to four he sternly jerked on his coat and walked far north of ninety-second Street, then back.
The chief of the Kafirs ordered the scout sternly to be silent, at the same time glancing at orpin.
He was angry with her importunity and would have answered sternly.
We may deplore it, but we can not wonder, and we can not sternly blame.
I said, sternly, but with a calmness which almost astonished me.
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