Bearer has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | This check is payable to the bearer. | |
| 2. | The bearer of this letter is my friend Suzuki. | |
| 3. | The walking stick serves the purpose of an advertisement that the bearer's hands are employed otherwise than in useful effort, and it therefore has utility as an evidence of leisure. | |
| 4. | This ticket entitles the bearer to one chocolate sundae. | |
| 5. | I hate to be the bearer of bad news. | |
| 6. | This ticket entitles the bearer to one chocolate ice cream. | |
| 7. | Mark wrote a letter to his wife and gave it to Vassili to take to her, and this was what was in the letter: 'When the bearer of this arrives, take him into the soap factory, and when you pass near the great boiler, push him in. If you don't obey my orders I shall be very angry, for this young man is a bad fellow who is sure to ruin us all if he lives.' | |
| 8. | I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but something terrible has happened. | |
| 9. | The Serpent Bearer is an outspread but not very prominent constellation. | |
| 10. | It seems to me that he was the standard-bearer of the royal army during the war. |