Sierra has 3 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
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| 1. | John Muir was a famous naturalist who founded the Sierra Club. | |
| 2. | What's the minimum salary in Sierra Leone? | |
| 3. | In the central portion of the great North American Continent there lies an arid and repulsive desert, which for many a long year served as a barrier against the advance of civilization. From the Sierra Nevada to Nebraska, and from the Yellowstone River in the north to the Colorado upon the south, is a region of desolation and silence. | |
| 4. | In the whole world there can be no more dreary view than that from the northern slope of the Sierra Blanco. | |
| 5. | It has been said there is nothing appertaining to life upon the broad plain. That is hardly true. Looking down from the Sierra Blanco, one sees a pathway traced out across the desert, which winds away and is lost in the extreme distance. It is rutted with wheels and trodden down by the feet of many adventurers. Here and there there are scattered white objects which glisten in the sun, and stand out against the dull deposit of alkali. Approach and examine them! They are bones: some large and coarse, others smaller and more delicate. The former have belonged to oxen, and the latter to men. For fifteen hundred miles one may trace this ghastly caravan route by these scattered remains of those who had fallen by the wayside. | |
| 6. | The sight of the fair young girl, as frank and wholesome as the Sierra breezes, had stirred his volcanic, untamed heart to its very depths. | |
| 7. | The Sierra Nevada range rose almost an inch during California's recent drought due to loss of water from within fractured rocks. | |
| 8. | One day I saw my friend Sierra waiting at a bus stop. She was wearing headphones and did not hear me come up behind her. So, when I touched her shoulder, she nearly jumped out of her skin! | |
| 9. | In the Sierra Nevada, firefighters achieved 41 percent containment of a forest fire that has shut down Yosemite Valley and other adjacent portions of Yosemite National Park at what is normally the height of summer tourism. | |
| 10. | Freetown is the capital of Sierra Leone. |