Brazen has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Here, by the goddess and her gifts renowned, / Sidonian Dido built a stately shrine. / All brazen rose the threshold; brass was round / the door-posts; brazen doors on grating hinges sound. | |
| 2. | His brazen act of defiance almost cost him his life. | |
| 3. | Mary claims that Google Translate translates better than I do. That is a brazen lie. | |
| 4. | Scarce out of sight of Sicily, they set / their sails to sea, and merrily ploughed the main, / with brazen beaks, when Juno, harbouring yet / within her breast the ever-ranking pain, / mused thus: "Must I then from the work refrain, / nor keep this Trojan from the Latin throne, / baffled, forsooth, because the Fates constrain?" | |
| 5. | "Then wars shall cease and savage times grow mild, / and Remus and Quirinus, brethren twain, / with hoary Faith and Vesta undefiled, / shall give the law. With iron bolt and chain / firm-closed the gates of Janus shall remain. / Within, the Fiend of Discord, high reclined / on horrid arms, unheeded in the fane, / bound with a hundred brazen knots behind, / and grim with gory jaws, his grisly teeth shall grind." | |
| 6. | He in the forefront, tallest of the tall, / poleaxe in hand, unhinging at a stroke / the brazen portals, made the doorway fall, / and wide-mouthed as a window, through the oak, / a panelled plank hewn out, a yawning rent he broke. | |
| 7. | In front, above the temple-gates I rear / the brazen shield which once great Abas bore, / and mark the deed in writing on the door, / "AEneas these from conquering Greeks hath ta'en". | |
| 8. | What I hate most about fascists is their chauvinism, their brazen hatred of persecuted minority groups, and their sense of entitlement to rule over others. | |
| 9. | Yanni is getting more brazen by the day and Skura has had enough. |