Attest has 2 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
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1. | The fingerprints on the knife attest to her guilt. | |
2. | His success attest his diligence. | |
3. | I can attest to everything she just said. | |
4. | A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears. | |
5. | I will attest that I did not hear that. | |
6. | "O Thou, whose nod and awful bolts attest / o'er Gods and men thine everlasting reign, / wherein hath my AEneas so transgressed, / wherein his Trojans, thus to mourn their slain, / barred from the world, lest Italy they gain?" | |
7. | But when our fortune and our hopes declined, / the treacherous King the conqueror's cause professed, / and, false to faith, to friendship and to kind, / slew Polydorus, and his wealth possessed. / Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power attest! | |
8. | 20th-century immigration records from Ellis Island attest that Hungarian Jewish immigrants were divided on whether they considered themselves Hungarian or Hebrew. | |
9. | Western Sahara is a region of Morocco, the majority of its inhabitants attest to this. | |
10. | I can attest to his innocence. |