Sterner

Word STERNER
Character 7
Hyphenation stern er
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Sterner"

What do we mean by sterner?

Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.

Grim and forbidding in appearance.

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The word "sterner" in example sentences

Her father, Henry Rich, Lord Holland, the second son of the Earl of Warwick, has found place in sterner history than this. ❋ Unknown (1888)

If the brow slightly bent before her did slightly knit itself in sterner lines than common, she could not be sure of it, bent as it was; and when he looked up, there was no such expression there. ❋ Unknown (1864)

So much the sterner is the demand through the remaining ground for exquisite brevity. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

Idle fancies these indeed, and such as sterner judgments may deem trifling or absurd, yet not uninteresting, since many of them evidently afford vestiges of classic times and manners, transmitted through the course of ages; nor unuseful, since they tend to smooth and adorn the rugged way of life, and to strew its flinty path with flowers. ❋ Various (N/A)

Nico was trying not to be distracted thinking about how he could possibly look sterner while unchanging but he quieted that thought for another day. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But you RR readers are made of sterner stuff, and you'll all have your favourite B-sides. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He explains that the president's sterner rhetoric was "too little, too late" to be of much help to the Green Movement. ❋ Jennifer Rubin (2011)

The second half gave Derby's forwards fewer learning opportunities, and provided a sterner test for their team-mates further back. ❋ Unknown (2012)

But many of the planet's current pop stars are clearly made of sterner stuff. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Not all the potential 2012 contenders have urged quicker or sterner action against Libya. ❋ Neil King Jr. (2011)

To the casual observer, this looked like a mild rebuke, hardly worth noticing in those sterner days when police brutality was a given. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The delicate manipulations of chemical experiments are well, even better, suited to their physical powers than to eh sterner six; and to the ladies, therefore. we commend the charge of becoming the chefs of the modern still-room. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If it didn't for you, you're either made of much sterner stuff than I or the faeries must already have you clutched safe to their collective silvery bosom, far, far away from here. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He and a board of advisers have said sterner measures will be required next year. ❋ AP (2010)

If the result is not even sterner reforms from Congress than those pushed by Obama to wholesale ethics reform on our college campuses, the only one we can blame is ourselves. ❋ Michael Giltz (2011)

Yet Wolves seem set to be made of sterner stuff this season. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But throughout last week, and now perhaps through more weeks ahead, hope needs a firmer spine of resolution and at least the prospect of something sterner. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Selling more beer than the previous owners did at better margins in a competitive Brazilian market could prove a sterner test. ❋ James Simms (2011)

Enticing Young to Anfield, and away from Old Trafford, would be a further indication of Liverpool's determination to offer a sterner challenge to Sir Alex Ferguson's domination of the Premier League than they have managed for much of the past two decades. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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