sternly

IPA: stˈɝnɫi

Examples of "sternly" in Sentences

Then she called sternly to her straying imagination.
Face it, she told herself sternly, that is a closed chapter.
Orchard Street and nothing more, he reminded himself sternly, that is not so very bad.
Glancing at Juan, she saw the troubled darkness of his eyes as he gazed at the hollow, his expression sternly sober.
I made a quick comment of reprimand (merely saying his name sternly), and his instant, reflexive reaction was to say
"Also," said Tish, cutting in sternly, "you took away my revolver, and left us helpless last night, and in peril of wild beasts."
Then the messenger of the Vikings stood on the bank, he called sternly, uttered words, boastfully speaking the seafarers’ message to the earl, as he stood on the shore.
He did not appear to fairly understand it until he was shown the chest with the ventilated lid; then his countenance cleared, and, taking the unhappy Billy by the collar, he called sternly for a piece of rope.