Dispersed has 2 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | The bank robbers dispersed in all directions. | |
| 2. | The clouds dispersed themselves. | |
| 3. | The police dispersed the crowd. | |
| 4. | The crowd dispersed quickly. | |
| 5. | Dorcon, having thus been rescued from the jaws of the dogs and not, as the old adage has it, from those of the wolf, went home to nurse himself; while Daphnis and Chloe were occupied until nightfall in the difficult task of collecting their sheep and goats, which being terrified by the sight of the wolfskin and the barking of the dogs had dispersed in different directions. | |
| 6. | For the hope of the wicked is as dust, which is blown away with the wind, and as a thin froth which is dispersed by the storm: and a smoke that is scattered abroad by the wind: and as the remembrance of a guest of one day that passeth by. | |
| 7. | Winds roll the waters, and the great seas rise. / Dispersed we welter on the gulfs. Damp night / has snatched with rain the heaven from our eyes, / and storm-mists in a mantle wrapt the light. / Flash after flash, and for a moment bright, / quick lightnings rend the welkin. Driven astray / we wander, robbed of reckoning, reft of sight. / No difference now between the night and day / e'en Palinurus sees, nor recollects the way. | |
| 8. | The powers of death have done their worst; But Christ their legions hath dispersed; Let shouts of holy joy outburst: Alleluia! | |
| 9. | The clouds dispersed. | |
| 10. | The crowd dispersed. |