Prim has 1 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | That president's secretary is always prim. | |
| 2. | She was a rather prim and proper young lady. | |
| 3. | Marilla had almost begun to despair of ever fashioning this waif of the world into her model little girl of demure manners and prim deportment. | |
| 4. | He was a small, slim, clean-shaven, prim-faced man, flaxen-haired and lean-jawed, between thirty and forty years of age, dressed in a grey suit and wearing a straw hat. | |
| 5. | It was a very long street of two-story brick houses, neat and prim, with whitened stone steps and little groups of aproned women gossiping at the doors. | |
| 6. | Dora's sitting up on the seat as prim as you please. She always looks as if she'd just been starched and ironed. |