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Example sentences for: stern

How can you use “stern” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The national security advisor ordered that the U.S.message"be stern and foreboding."
I just get all flustered when I have to prove it under the stern, judgmental eyes of the state.
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Besides, the British have Paddington Bear and the Yanks created the stern Smokey (a suitable symbol of American authoritarianism).
First, he is typically hailed (or, rarely now, condemned) as a revolutionary who emboldened postwar parents to rebel against the stern behaviorist style that had prevailed in the 1920s and 1930s.