Sledge has 1 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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1. | The sledge was so heavy that four men were assigned to pull it across the ice. | |
2. | Alaska holds an annual contest in which teams of 16 dogs pull sledges a distance of about 1,800 kilometres through tundra and forests, crossing rivers, hills and mountain passes. The sledge driver is often called a "musher"; the word comes from the French command "Marche!" In most years the winning musher is from Alaska, but a Swiss citizen has won the event four times, and a Norwegian has won twice. | |
3. | Sledge hockey is a variation of ice hockey intended for disabled athletes, who sit on aluminium sledges with attached skate blades. The players each use two spiked fibreglass hockey sticks both to propel themselves forward and to pass the puck or shoot it towards the goal. | |
4. | Soon after this Kay came in again, with thick gloves on his hands, and his sledge slung across his back. | |
5. | While they were all amusing themselves, a great sledge came by; it was painted white, and in it sat some one wrapped in a rough white fur, and wearing a white cap. | |
6. | "We have driven well," said she, "but why do you tremble? here, creep into my warm fur." Then she seated him beside her in the sledge, and as she wrapped the fur around him. | |
7. | 'We have driven fast!' said she, 'but no one likes to be frozen; creep under my bear-skin,' and she seated him in the sledge by her side, and spread her cloak around him. | |
8. | I bought the new sledge for my son. | |
9. | The children are pulling the sledge up the hill. | |
10. | The kids are pulling their sledge up the hill. |