Folly has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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| 1. | Gradlon, as is so often the case with pious men, had a wayward child, the princess Dahut, who on one occasion while her father was sleeping gave a secret banquet to her lover, in which the pair, excited with wine, committed folly after folly, until at last it occurred to the frivolous girl to open the sluice-gate. | |
| 2. | You should be ashamed of your folly. | |
| 3. | I cannot help laughing at your folly. | |
| 4. | Who lives without folly is not so wise as he thinks. | |
| 5. | What a piece of folly! | |
| 6. | It's folly to eat so much. | |
| 7. | It is an act of folly. | |
| 8. | I cannot help laughing at my folly. | |
| 9. | Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise. | |
| 10. | No medicine can cure folly. |