sterns

Definition of sternsnext
plural of stern

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sterns
Noun
  • Throughout the property, the original building's bones— beams, tiles, pillars, and window frames—were gently restored to show their age and patina, not conceal it.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Apr. 2026
  • When these rapidly spinning neutron stars blast out radiation from their poles, that radiation sweeps across the cosmos like beams of light from a cosmic lighthouse.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Their seafood steam pots feature shrimp, clams, crabs, oysters, and even lobster tails, depending on your family's preferences.
    Valerie Fraser Luesse, Southern Living, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Three wolves, trotting single-file with heads and tails down, started to cross the flat half a mile downwind of the caribou.
    Frank Glaser, Outdoor Life, 1 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The women stood on the doorsteps with their rumps to the crowd, skirts lifted to flash tattered green knickers.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026
  • He has been vilified for his notorious drawings of oversized women with ample rumps and thick, powerful legs, definitely objectified and more or less turned into meat-at-the-ready.
    David Zane Mairowitz, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Each treatment requires just three minutes, and the wand’s rotating head easily glides over the forehead, cheeks, under eyes, jawline and neck.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • Flush Balm blush in shade Bespoke awakens her cheeks with ease.
    Kiana Murden, Vogue, 24 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • In addition to the trout lily, Georgia’s spring ephemerals include bloodroot, toothwort, harbinger of spring, wild geranium, blue cohosh, twinleaf, May-apple, Virginia bluebell, celandine poppy, Dutchman’s breeches, spring beauty, wood anemone, windflower, bleeding heart, phacelia and more.
    Charles Seabrook, AJC.com, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Worse even than poetry with a palpable design on us, as Keats didn’t quite say, is poetry that puts its hands in its breeches pockets and delivers a lecture in the expectation of applause.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
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“Sterns.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sterns. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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