Chaplain has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | The chaplain listened sympathetically to his parishioner. | |
| 2. | She was a five-hundred-ton boat; and besides her thirty-eight jail-birds, she carried twenty-six of a crew, eighteen soldiers, a captain, three mates, a doctor, a chaplain, and four warders. | |
| 3. | Then we rushed on into the captain's cabin, but as we pushed open the door there was an explosion from within, and there he lay wit his brains smeared over the chart of the Atlantic which was pinned upon the table, while the chaplain stood with a smoking pistol in his hand at his elbow. | |
| 4. | He's a Muslim chaplain. | |
| 5. | He became a Muslim chaplain. | |
| 6. | He's a Muslim chaplain in the US Army. | |
| 7. | I didn't even know that we had a Muslim chaplain. |