Subordinate has 4 syllables and the stress is on the second syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | All the other issues are subordinate to this one. | |
| 2. | I was stabbed in the back by my subordinate. | |
| 3. | He is able to subordinate passion to reason. | |
| 4. | We all live, at any rate for a time, and the majority of us always, in polygamy. Consequently, as each man needs many women, nothing is more just than to let him, nay, make it incumbent upon him to provide for many women. By this means woman will be brought back to her proper and natural place as a subordinate being. | |
| 5. | Can you describe the ideal supervisor-subordinate relationship? | |
| 6. | He's only a subordinate. | |
| 7. | According to some experts the spoken language uses few subordinate clauses. | |
| 8. | A man who is poor, but independent of other people, is only dominated by his needs. A man who is rich, but dependent, is subordinate to another person, or to several. | |
| 9. | "The sentence has got too long again." "Then just take out a few of the subordinate clauses." | |
| 10. | The cat is, above all things, a dramatist; its life is lived in an endless romance though the drama is played out on quite another stage than our own, and we only enter into it as subordinate characters, as stage managers, or rather stage carpenters. |