Propriety has 4 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | The way tourists dress offends the local standard of propriety. | |
| 2. | The way tourists dress offends local standards of propriety. | |
| 3. | The Master said, "If a man be without the virtues proper to humanity, what has he to do with the rites of propriety? If a man be without the virtues proper to humanity, what has he to do with music?" | |
| 4. | Our people had been so long accustomed to the practice and convenience of having slaves, that very few among them even doubted the propriety and rectitude of it. | |
| 5. | Propriety cannot be separated from honesty. | |
| 6. | We were at breakfast when the Colonel's butler rushed in with all his propriety shaken out of him. "Have you heard the news, sir?" he gasped. "At the Cunningham's sir!" "Burglary!" cried the Colonel, with his coffee-cup in mid-air. "Murder!" | |
| 7. | And Laban called it 'The witness heap'; and Jacob, 'The hillock of testimony': each of them according to the propriety of his language. |