Lofty has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | That's to me like a flower on lofty heights. | |
| 2. | The world loves to blacken the radiant and to pull the lofty into the dust. | |
| 3. | This mountain isn't a lofty one. | |
| 4. | Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. | |
| 5. | We have lofty expectations. | |
| 6. | My goals are lofty. | |
| 7. | Here and there were lofty vines, thickly laden with clusters and climbing up the pear and apple trees, whose own fruit ripened beside the black grapes. | |
| 8. | Yea, and more, / in war enduring, ere he built a home, / and his loved household-deities brought o'er / to Latium, whence the Latin people come, / whence rose the Alban sires, and walls of lofty Rome. | |
| 9. | All hushed intent, when from his lofty seat / Troy's sire began: | |
| 10. | "Then, but for folly or Fate's adverse power, / his word had made us with our trusty glaive / lay bare the Argive ambush, and this hour / should Ilion stand, and thou, O Priam's lofty tower!" |