Flaming has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | The sun is a flaming ball. | |
| 2. | First from a flint a spark Achates drew, / and lit the leaves and dry wood heaped with care / and set the fuel flaming, as he blew. | |
| 3. | As when a snake, that through the winter's cold / lay swoln and hidden in the ground from sight, / gorged with rank herbs, forth issues to the light, / and sleek with shining youth and newly drest, / wreathing its slippery volumes, towers upright / and, glorying, to the sunbeam rears its breast, / and darts a three-forked tongue, and points a flaming crest. | |
| 4. | With him, Achilles' charioteer and squire, / Automedon, huge Periphas and all / the Scyrian youth rush up, and flaming fire / hurl to the roof, and thunder at the wall. | |
| 5. | And he cast out Adam: and placed before the paradise of pleasure Cherubim, and a flaming sword, turning every way, to keep the way of the tree of life. | |
| 6. | The juggler tossed a flaming baton to his partner. |