Canvas has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | This world is but canvas to our imaginations. | |
| 2. | Oil on canvas can never paint a petal so delicate. | |
| 3. | He swept his brush across the canvas. | |
| 4. | Groaning strangely she is hurling her overflowing passion onto the canvas! | |
| 5. | His eyes got stuck on the canvas on the wall. | |
| 6. | A clipper ship running before the wind with all her canvas spread is a sight to behold. | |
| 7. | A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence. | |
| 8. | Mary took a canvas and paints and walked to the brook. | |
| 9. | As the whirl of dust drew nearer to the solitary bluff upon which the two castaways were reposing, the canvas-covered tilts of waggons and the figures of armed horsemen began to show up through the haze, and the apparition revealed itself as being a great caravan upon its journey for the West. | |
| 10. | "As they, returning, sport with joyous cry, / and flap their wings and circle in the sky, / e'en so thy vessels and each late-lost crew / safe now and scatheless in the harbour lie, / or, crowding canvas, hold the port in view." |