Pair has 1 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Each pair of castanets is played with one hand. The two pairs are not alike: one pair is "female" and sounds higher, the other is the "male" pair and sounds lower. | |
| 2. | I haven't bought a pair of shoes for six months; I deserve a new pair so I think I'll go buy them! | |
| 3. | Chirality or chiral describes a nonsuperimposable mirror image, like left and right hands. Usually in chemistry the term is used to describe a pair of molecules that have the same formulas, but form a pair of structures. | |
| 4. | Buy one pair of glasses, get the second pair for free. | |
| 5. | I bought a pair of gloves for Tom and a pair of mittens for Mary. | |
| 6. | I bought a pair of gloves for Tom. For Mary, I bought a pair of mittens. | |
| 7. | "Which pair of shoes did you end up buying?" "The more expensive pair." | |
| 8. | I bought a pair of shoes. | |
| 9. | Yoshio said he would pay as much as 15,000 yen for a new pair of basketball shoes, but I thought that was quite expensive. | |
| 10. | There is a pair of scissors on the desk. |