Sentence for stern | Use stern in a sentence

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• He uttered a stern ahem! (10)
• It had a colourless, stern old face. (12)
• The eyes in their carven hollows were stern. (12)
• I can see how stern my boyish face was, how warm my blood. (16)
• The wind had us on the stern, and hurried us bitingly forward. (2)
• She extended him the scissors with the stern passivity of a fate. (9)
• The stern manner he had assumed gave her no hope of eluding him. (10)
• He sat beside her and gazed into the colourless, stern, old face. (12)
• And the dog Balthasar, puzzled, sat down on his stern to examine them. (8)
• Carlo spoke a stern word in an undertone; counselling him to be gone. (10)
• The only response to this question was a stern demand for our passports. (20)
• Hollow-backed buttresses carry vases, which figure for the stern lanterns. (2)
• In 1866, he became first piano teacher at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin. (3)
• These fought with stern fury, keeping close up to their enemy, rarely shouting. (10)
• He was stern and sad-eyed, like a man with a great weight of grief on his shoulders. (8)
• Rosamund saw tears leap out of the stern face of her dearest now in wrath with her. (10)
• Then came stern efforts to command his misery and make the nerves of his face iron. (10)
• Her face was set and stern, with a kind of dreary purpose in it, which made him unhappy. (13)
• With stern decision he therefore insisted upon demanding the entire sum in her possession. (5)
• A stern simplicity, heightened by the romance of the surroundings, spoke directly to the heart. (2)
• She could not look stern, but she had a look without a dimple to soften it, and her eyes shone. (10)
• Stern ambition was uppermost in his mind again, and he began to plan to get back to Philadelphia. (18)
• He could not see to its depth the tragedy before him, even as the stern Pemberton might have seen it. (13)
• Broke tempest with that stern roar Never yet, save when black on the whirl Rode wrath of a sovereign Power. (10)
• The idealized conception of stern truths played about his head certainly for those who knew and who loved it. (10)
• But the stern upholder of the law did not feel that he had the right to disobey the instructions of his father. (5)
• The brows of the phantom Vernon whom she conjured up were stern, as she had seen them yesterday in the library. (10)
• In the stern of each of these little craft, blowing at the sails, was seated a by-product of the accepted system. (8)
• She lay with both arms thrown up beneath her head on the pillow, her eyelids wide open, and her visage set and stern. (10)
• So for hours rode Farina in a silver-fleeting glory; while the Monk as a shadow, galloped stern and silent beside him. (10)
• Stern was the task set before the man who should presume to scale those heights and force the proud city to surrender. (19)
• His presence recalls the faint memory of overland journey and one ring, and the stern hardships of the days of long ago. (21)
• One peculiarity of the construction was that the deck-boards and all the strakes ran from stem to stern without a splice. (20)
• Dismissing the ferry-barge with stern injunctions to be in waiting from noon to noon, the three leapt on their fresh nags. (10)
• The command of this force was given to General Braddock, a stern and peppery old soldier, wholly ignorant of Indian warfare. (19)
• To her surprise, her father became violently enraged, and uttered a stern prohibition, speaking a word that stained her cheeks. (10)
• As quick as a flash, Risk came about on the starboard tack, passed astern and raked the cruiser a second time from stem to stern. (18)
• She carried sixteen long nine-pounders and two long twelve-pounders for stern and bow chasers, with a full complement of eighty men. (18)
• When under full headway, he wore ship and brought the starboard battery into short range, thus raking the cruiser from stem to stern. (18)
• We knew the stern traditional circus antipathy toward affairs of the kind and wondered whether the fixed opposition of the aunt could be overcome. (21)

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