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How to use sternness in a sentence

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Sentence Examples
Austerity and sternness will alienate his affections, and severe words will sting him to the quick.
My uncle's familiar voice filled with his accustomed brisk sternness answered.
In a field rooted in moral concern, there is a long tradition of solemnity and sternness.
Among brothers there may still occur moments of sternness, incomprehension, and the resulting tears.
The sternness of the instruction still resonates, but I couldn't swear that I always followed it.
This is the bell I'm used to hearing, but this morning I feel sternness in the sound which goes right through my body.
The secular world, it must be admitted, was far from displaying the same degree of sternness and consistency.
On one hand it expresses Mary's joy at her pregnancy, but on the other Mary presents a bold image of God: a God of almost old Testament sternness in his demand for justice on earth.
Van Helsing's sternness was somewhat relieved by a look of perplexity.
Permanent and the conciliation of beneficiaries as well as their selection according to the sternness of their is nation on the banes of social enquires and at the decision of the local City Council.
The masters looked unusually stern, but it was the sternness of thought rather than of discipline.
Don't be afraid of the sternness of their look, of their carbon-black, diamond-brilliant eyes, of the chill wind as their wings come flapping blackly down.
Adamancy, sternness or stridency would certainly cost him very dearly.
Examples from Classical Literature
The burgomaster wore an air of sternness and self-importance which boded no good.
Just then, up came my father, with a sternness in his looks that made me tremble.
Dr. Branner was as kind to his boys as he was stern when sternness was needed.
As they rested upon her some of the sternness seemed to fade from their glance.
Diocletian is said to have behaved on this occasion with unusual sternness.
Then she heard her uncle's voice, speaking sharply and with unwonted sternness.
He spoke with a purposed sternness, but with something of a heartache, too.
He accepted that feeling with a purposeful sternness, and tried to pass on.
And since her niece had come to live with her, this put-on sternness had increased.
She was growing calm, her agitation was quieting and a grim sternness was replacing it.
You know the sternness, reservedness, and distance of his manners.
There was an entire lack of sternness in the gossipy class-room.
It had dreaminess in it, intense attention, and something like sternness.
A shade of some habitual sternness had crept over the features.
The handsomeness was marred by a somberness, a sternness of demeanor.
After a time she left rattling avenues and passed between rows of houses with sternness and stolidity stamped upon their features.
What was required to control him was a strong hand, with tempered sternness and yet with the requisite touch of brutal dominance.
The sternness of age and the austerity of censoriousness are now silent.
This little relaxation of sternness had a good effect upon the queen.
Spenlow seemed quite cowed by the gentlemanly sternness of Miss Murdstone's manner, and deprecated her severity with a conciliatory little wave of his hand.
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