Discipline has 3 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Take a belt and discipline Sami." "Pardon?" "I said take a belt and discipline your son." "I don't discipline my children with a belt." | |
| 2. | The working class will acquire the sense of the new discipline, the freely assumed self-discipline of the Social Democracy, not as a result of the discipline imposed on it by the capitalist state, but by extirpating, to the last root, its old habits of obedience and servility. | |
| 3. | We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. | |
| 4. | School discipline is not as it should be. | |
| 5. | The child was completely lacking in discipline. | |
| 6. | For too long society has placed sole emphasis on children's test results, to the detriment of social discipline. | |
| 7. | Discipline is rather mild at this school. | |
| 8. | Not until the end of the nineteenth century, did plant breeding become a scientific discipline. | |
| 9. | You aren't cut out for the military because of its rigid discipline. | |
| 10. | Military discipline is literally rigid. |