Stately has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | A government official's stately mansion was looted. | |
| 2. | He walks in a stately manner. | |
| 3. | He lives in that stately mansion. | |
| 4. | He was a tall, heavy-looking young man of five-and-twenty. His air was grave and stately, and his manners were very formal. | |
| 5. | He was a stately man. | |
| 6. | In the autumn woodcutters always came and felled a few of the largest trees; that was done this year too, and the little Fir Tree, that was now quite well grown, shuddered with fear, for the great stately trees fell to the ground with a crash, and their branches were cut off. | |
| 7. | The mansion, gone for a century, once more reared its stately height to the raptured vision; every window ablaze with the splendour of many candles. | |
| 8. | Here, by the goddess and her gifts renowned, / Sidonian Dido built a stately shrine. / All brazen rose the threshold; brass was round / the door-posts; brazen doors on grating hinges sound. | |
| 9. | Laocoon, Neptune's priest, by lot ordained, / a stately bull before the altar slew. | |
| 10. | Bared stands the inmost palace, and behold, / the stately chambers and the courts appear / of Priam and the Trojan Kings of old, / and warders at the door with shield an spear. |