Downcast has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | She went out of the room with downcast eyes. | |
| 2. | Tamara seemed like a soul in despair since she was always lonely, downcast, and melancholic. | |
| 3. | Tom looks downcast. | |
| 4. | I saw him skulking downcast in the bathroom. | |
| 5. | Then Dido thus, with downcast look sedate: / "Take courage, Trojans, and dismiss your fear. / My kingdom's newness and the stress of Fate / force me to guard far off the frontiers of my state." | |
| 6. | Don't look so downcast, Tom. | |
| 7. | Then with lowly downcast eye / she dropped her voice, and softly made reply. / "Ah! happy maid of Priam, doomed instead / at Troy upon a foeman's tomb to die! / Not drawn by lot for servitude, nor led / a captive thrall, like me, to grace a conqueror's bed." | |
| 8. | Tom looked downcast. | |
| 9. | I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments. |