Emancipation has 5 syllables and the stress is on the fourth syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | She fought for the emancipation of women. | |
| 2. | Never has youth been exposed to such dangers of both perversion and arrest as in our own land and day. Increasing urban life with its temptations, prematurities, sedentary occupations, and passive stimuli just when an active life is most needed, early emancipation and a lessening sense for both duty and discipline, the haste to know and do all befitting man's estate before its time, the mad rush for sudden wealth and the reckless fashions set by its gilded youth--all these lack some of the regulatives they still have in older lands with more conservative conditions. | |
| 3. | The islands' sugar industry was hurt by the emancipation of the slaves in 1834. | |
| 4. | The emancipation of the working class is the work of the working class itself. | |
| 5. | His demand for immediate emancipation fell like a tocsin upon the ears of slaveholders. | |
| 6. | “Joseph Rainey is someone who can be described as the founding father of our nation,” said Bobby Donaldson, a history professor at the University of South Carolina. “He literally helped to rebuild this country in the aftermath of the Civil War and helped to envision a nation following emancipation during this extraordinary era called Reconstruction,” Donaldson told VOA. |