Alacrity has 4 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
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| 1. | Our seamen have always been famous for a matchless alacrity and intrepidity in time of danger; this has saved many a British ship, when other seamen would have run below deck, and left the ship to the mercy of the waves, or, perhaps, of a more cruel enemy, a pirate. | |
| 2. | The alacrity with which she was greeted felt disconcerting, given the chilly reception she had experienced before. | |
| 3. | I was shocked by the alacrity with which my typos and gaffes were pointed out. |