Commonwealth has 3 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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| 1. | Soviet and Western observers have warned that if the Muslim republics do not join the commonwealth, they may from a separate group, setting up a volatile ethnic and religious split. | |
| 2. | The oligarchic character of the modern English commonwealth does not rest, like many oligarchies, on the cruelty of the rich to the poor. It does not even rest on the kindness of the rich to the poor. It rests on the perennial and unfailing kindness of the poor to the rich. | |
| 3. | I think putting thieves to death is not lawful; and it is plain and obvious that it is absurd and of ill consequence to the commonwealth that a thief and a murderer should be equally punished. | |
| 4. | Barbados is a member of the Commonwealth. | |
| 5. | For what the soul is to the body, a good prince is to the commonwealth. | |
| 6. | In 1935, the Philippines became a self-governing commonwealth. | |
| 7. | The islands became an independent state within the British Commonwealth of Nations in 1981. |