“The sailors were ordered to move sternward as the enemy ship approached.”

“Tito and his Communist regime acted sternly to suppress nationalist tendencies.”

“She hurriedly grabbed her papers, gloves, and keys, tucked a stray hair behind her ear and looked sternly at me.”

“Usually they're in the forms of ancestors, mostly benevolent and at worst sternly disapproving.”

“We swim sternwards past boilers and engine, then along the propeller shaft.”

“A spotted eagle ray winged its way sternwards as we meandered in the direction of the bow, just above the port rail.”

“Continuing sternwards, the empty mounting for the stern navigation light can be found behind a raised box at the aft end of the superstructure.”