Understudy has 4 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Her understudy was also on. | |
| 2. | He had been Tom's understudy as vice-captain. | |
| 3. | She was such a big star that she wouldn't allow an understudy. | |
| 4. | She was under lots of pressure to perform three different roles as an understudy. | |
| 5. | His former understudy was on the point of filing his retirement papers. | |
| 6. | Her understudy sings like a bird. | |
| 7. | He could prove to be an efficient understudy. | |
| 8. | He is an understudy for that character. | |
| 9. | She also served as Mary's understudy. | |
| 10. | BLEU (Bilingual Evaluation Understudy) is a method for evaluating the quality of translations made by machine translation systems. The higher the quality of a translation, the more similar it is to a reference translation, which is assumed to be correct. |