Sterne

[ sturn ]

noun

1. Laurence, 1713–68, English clergyman and novelist.

Sterne

/ stɜːn /

noun

1. SterneLaurence17131768MEnglishIrishWRITING: novelist Laurence. 1713–68, English novelist, born in Ireland, author of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759–67) and A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768)

Example Sentences

"The pectoral fins are a critical structure, comparable to our arms," said UCR biology doctoral student and paper first author Phillip Sternes.

From Science Daily

When wildlife videographer Carlos Gauna and shark researcher Phillip Sternes saw on their drone footage a small great white shark that lacked the species’ typical gray coloring, they knew they had captured something rare.

From Los Angeles Times

Though female great whites give live birth, mothers can nourish pups in utero with a "milk" secreted for the pups — and Sternes believes what the duo saw "was the baby shedding the intrauterine milk."

From Salon

“Both scenarios are highly significant,” says Sternes, who together with Gauna co-authored a study announcing the findings today in the journal Environmental Biology of Fishes.

From National Geographic

"We enlarged the images, put them in slow motion, and realized the white layer was being shed from the body as it was swimming," Sternes said.

From Science Daily