sternly

How To Use sternly In A Sentence

• ‘Carol,’ she said sternly, ‘we are not kidding around here.’
• Then, turning to the temple, he called solemnly and sternly to the madman, 'Thy hour is come! repent, confess, and save thy soul!' Antonina
• Now," my brain commanded sternly, and out I went to run. Ejercicio
• The Sheriff made a joke over the similarity of the words 'officious' and 'official' to which there was some laughter, at which point one of the court officials sternly rebuked those present with a shout of "Silence in court! Signs of the Times
• Severus mounted the tribunal, sternly reproached them with perfidy and cowardice, dismissed them with ignominy from the trust which they had betrayed, despoiled them of their splendid ornaments, and banished them, on pain of death, to the distance of a hundred miles from the capital. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• The chair sternly rebuked the audience for their laughter.
• Och, Moira, acushla, sure an 'I know how 'tis to ye --" And then with a reaction to virtue, he said sternly, "An 'if they're not bad, why do they go when you call on the blessed saints? Hillsboro People
• In dress, for instance, he sternly banished the purple and gold embroideries, the jewelled arms, and the floating draperies so little in accordance with the-severe character of "_war in procinct_" [Footnote: "_War in procinct_" -- a phrase of The Caesars
• She told herself sternly that she must shake off this tendency towards romantic fantasy.
• I have sternly refused to allow mother to ride Wyoming, on the ground that I would not have her make a martyr of herself in the shape of riding a horse with a single-foot gait, which she so openly detests. To Ted on a Hunting Trip