Tranquillity has 4 syllables.
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| 1. | The quarter master was standing on deck, contemplating the scene of tranquillity around him : the blue waters seemed to invite him to a refreshing bath, and he was soon undressed; and, mounting on the barricade, plunged into the sea. | |
| 2. | She hopes for tranquillity. | |
| 3. | The primary object of an efficient police is the prevention of crime: the next that of detection and punishment of offenders if crime is committed. To these ends all the efforts of police must be directed. The protection of life and property, the preservation of public tranquillity, and the absence of crime, will alone prove whether those efforts have been successful and whether the objects for which the police were appointed have been attained. | |
| 4. | As the love of money has been, in all ages, one of the passions that have given great disturbance to the tranquillity of the world, there is no topic more copiously treated by the ancient moralists than the folly of devoting the heart to the accumulation of riches. | |
| 5. | "Sheela, what kind of meditation are you learning at the Thai temple?" "Cassandra, I’m actually learning two kinds: samatha or tranquillity and vipassanā or insight." | |
| 6. | "Cassandra, in tranquillity meditation, you can count or repeat a seed word in your head." "Sheela, I know it's more complicated than what you say." |