严厉 (yánlì) means Severe (strict - stern). Below are 3 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
父亲对他一向很 严厉 。
Fùqīn duì tā yíxiàng hěn yánlì.
His father has always been strict with him.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 严厉
他受到了 严厉 的批评。
Tā shòudào le yánlì de pīpíng.
He came in for severe criticism.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 严厉
政府正在 严厉 打击这类犯罪。
Zhèngfǔ zhèngzài yánlì dǎjī zhè lèi fànzuì.
The government is cracking down hard on this kind of crime.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 打击
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How is 严厉 used in a sentence?
This page shows 3 sentences using 严厉 (yánlì, "Severe (strict - stern)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 严厉 an HSK word?
Yes — 严厉 is on the official HSK 6 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 6 page.
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