1.   A stern voice spoke of the significance of this moment, the victorious Allied forces coming together in Berlin.

2.   He spoke in a stern voice, nodding to-wards the stairs.

3.   From within the universities there were stern voices of anti-vocationalism and resistance to public demands for responsiveness, strengthening the impression.

4.   A miss will be greeted by the stern voice of an instructor explaining what went wrong.

5.   All I hear is the stern voice of my grandmother, trying to save her drowning grandaughter.

6.   Chambers calls, her stern voice belied by a big smile.

7.   In a stern voice, Bush, who has scheduled a visit to China in October, issued his second warning in two days.

8.   In the distance I could hear a stern voice over a loudspeaker.

9.   Someone needed to use that stern voice on me.