Lilac has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
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| 1. | The color of lilac is named after the lilac flower. | |
| 2. | My mother loved lilac bushes so I planted some outside her door . | |
| 3. | Among the paintings of Claude Monet is one titled "Lilac Irises" and another called "Iris Mauve." | |
| 4. | In the garden below were lilac-trees purple with flowers, and their dizzily sweet fragrance drifted up to the window on the morning wind. | |
| 5. | The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn. | |
| 6. | When a book is covered in cloth of a good dark tint it may be allowed to remain unbound, but the primrose and lilac hues soon call out for the aid of the binder. |