sternly
IPA: stˈɝnɫi
adverb
- In a stern manner.
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Examples of "sternly" in Sentences
- However, Paul sternly warns the boy.
- The police sternly investigated the case.
- The police was sternly rebuked by the judges.
- Then she called sternly to her straying imagination.
- Clark then sternly demands the keys for all vehicles.
- He sternly defended morality and justice in a decadent age.
- Army training isn't for the faint of heart, he says sternly.
- Face it, she told herself sternly, that is a closed chapter.
- Gurnemanz speaks sternly to the lad saying this is a holy place.
- Gurnemanz speaks sternly to the lad saying, this is a holy place.
- Bibo looks at him sternly and gives him a good pat on the shoulder.
- As I recall, the block warnings were issued very sternly at that time.
- 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.
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