We found 40 examples of how to use stern in an English sentence.
Sentences 1 to 25 of 40.
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| 1. | His stern tone and loud voice belied his inner sensitivity and caring nature. | |
| 2. | Our teacher is at once stern and kindly. | |
| 3. | Our teacher is stern to us. | |
| 4. | Silvia had a stern father who never praised her. | |
| 5. | I gave him a stern talking to. | |
| 6. | He looks stern. | |
| 7. | He is at once stern and tender. | |
| 8. | He looks stern, but actually he's very kind. | |
| 9. | He gave me a stern look. | |
| 10. | Her stern look told the boys that they were in trouble. | |
| 11. | Her stern look got him to quit talking. | |
| 12. | Mary gave Tom a stern look. | |
| 13. | Quickly he loosed the stern line and climbed into the boat by the bow. | |
| 14. | The ship had taken on water and was down by the stern. | |
| 15. | Is your father stern? | |
| 16. | They saw his face grow stern and cold, they saw his muscles strain, and they knew that Casey wouldn't let that ball go by again. | |
| 17. | My worst trouble was getting away from home on the morning of starting. Mother and my sisters, of course, shed a few tears; but my father, stern and unbending in his manner, gave me his benediction in these words: "Thomas Moore, you're the third son to leave our roof, but your father's blessing goes with you. I left my own home beyond the sea before I was your age." And as they all stood at the gate, I climbed into my saddle and rode away, with a lump in my throat which left me speechless to reply. | |
| 18. | Tom gave Mary a stern look. | |
| 19. | Tom looks stern. | |
| 20. | We felt the ship moan in all its boards and the wood begin to tremble from the bow to the stern. | |
| 21. | On the summit, hard and clear like an equestrian statue upon its pedestal, was a mounted soldier, dark and stern, his rifle poised ready over his forearm. | |
| 22. | Meanwhile, with beaten breasts and streaming hair, / the Trojan dames, a sad and suppliant train, / the veil to partial Pallas' temple bear. / Stern, with averted eyes the Goddess spurns their prayer. | |
| 23. | "What Myrmidon, or who / of stern Ulysses' warriors can withhold / his tears, to tell such things, as thou would'st have re-told?" | |
| 24. | Let's give him a stern talking to. | |
| 25. | Far off there lies, with many a spacious plain, / the land of Mars, by Thracians tilled and sown, / where stern Lycurgus whilom held his reign; / a hospitable shore, to Troy well-known, / her home-gods leagued in union with our own, / while Fortune smiled. |