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How to use harshly in a sentence

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The door leading outside was opened to reveal deep drifts of snow and still more whipping harshly around.
However, within a minute the French teenager was harshly adjudged to have tripped Adrian Foster.
That deduction came about because Brodie had been harshly adjudged to have been at fault for an accidental head-clash in the opening seconds.
Many juvenile court advocates harshly criticized how the police handled young offenders.
Nations that start wars are considered aggressors, and are judged harshly by both history and their peers.
Generally, we hold that there's no crime worse than murder, and we punish it more harshly than we do anything else.
When Jana emerged from the stall, she was tucking her white shirt into the regulation plaid skirt and was muttering harshly under her breath.
The Director reprimands him harshly in front of all the people at the meeting as a conspirator and suggests his deportation.
So originally, I planned to write a harshly analytical, sharply critical piece.
There are instances in which Mohammed behaved harshly and unjustly in his dealings with people and without mercy towards his enemies.
The modern consensus view is to judge the legacies of empire, especially of the modern European empires, very harshly.
Reyna stood and leapt at Vincent, but he slapped her away roughly and she was knocked harshly against a table.
One long Aberdeen ball upfield 30 seconds later and Riordan was to be harshly punished.
But two late goals in as many minutes, the first from a harshly awarded penalty, pulled the rug from under them.
Their food and water supplies were dangerously low and the elf rationed it harshly.
The government's measures are directed at deterring refugees from seeking safe haven in Australia by treating them as harshly as possible.
When the whispering started, she began to shuffle her feet in embarrassment, her combat boots scarping harshly against the linoleum.
He placed his hand on the nape of her neck and squeezed harshly, causing Mandy's face to scrunch up in pain.
A mask connected to a small air supply had been strapped harshly over her face.
Originally only those physically incapable were deemed worthy of charity and able-bodied beggars were dealt with harshly.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I have no doubt, gentlemen, that you will think harshly of me because I did not enlighten the Vicomte.
The native church must not be judged too harshly for its failure in self-support.
Indeed, never did Heredia commit himself against Spain, harshly as he was treated by her.
Anselm answered him harshly that he was not obliged to do penance for his brother's sins.
In cases of revenue proceedings, the law harshly provides that the onus probandi is to be on the claimant, however injured.
Avanti along the blinding white road by the sea, to the village on which great Etna looked down, not harshly for all its majesty.
Like untuned golden strings all women are, Which long time lie untouched, will harshly jar.
Lift the latch quietly, though, for there is grief in the room, and noise comes harshly and gratingly upon a sorrowing ear.
After this she would be on her guard, forestall Martin, do tenderly what he would do harshly.
But the house and the town grated harshly now upon the young man.
A gruff voice from the doorway broke harshly in upon a measure.
The woman asked him harshly, if he couldn't come home with the others.
Well, he told himself, harshly, he was not likely to get it.
The unnaturalness of her crime stood out the more harshly by the side of her hard immovability and obstinate silence.
It was sung harshly, nasally, and dragged out in long, slow notes.
Taken together they make a character which would have fared harshly at the hands of history if its owner had had the ill luck to miss martyrdom.
For someone who has achieved nothing in foot-ball to speak so harshly about footballers from his own nation is hard to under-stand.
Chet was telling himself this when the Commander's voice broke in harshly.
The creepers, catching against his legs, cried out harshly as their sprays were torn from the barks of trees.
Never, in the weeks of their married life, had Billy found her dowdy, or harshly irritable, or lethargic.
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