General has 3 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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| 1. | There is no reason why in a society which has reached the general level of wealth which ours has attained the first kind of security should not be guaranteed to all without endangering general freedom. (...) there can be no doubt that some minimum of food, shelter and clothing, sufficient to preserve health and the capacity to work, can be assured to everybody. | |
| 2. | "Take all the land you want", said the Aborigine chief. "Oh no," said the English general, "we will take just an island." "And which island?" asked the Aborigene chief. "Just the island of Australia," replied the English general. | |
| 3. | No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric. | |
| 4. | In general, people who generalize are imbeciles, but only in general. | |
| 5. | With the heirless king going crazy and royal family poisoned, the general of the army finally had his chance to usurp the throne. | |
| 6. | In general, little is known about nonlinear second order differential equations. | |
| 7. | The fact that educated Americans in general no longer share understandable background knowledge is a chief cause of their inability to communicate effectively. | |
| 8. | Short-term effects of smoking include unfitness, wheezing, a general vulnerability to illness, bad breath, bad skin and so on. | |
| 9. | As soon as he graduated, he went to work in his father's general store. | |
| 10. | In general, people were against the consumption tax. |