Wholesome has 2 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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| 1. | Some lectures are not wholesome for children. | |
| 2. | She prepares wholesome meals for her family. | |
| 3. | I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout. | |
| 4. | Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. | |
| 5. | Baking apple pie fills the house with a wholesome aroma. | |
| 6. | Edible means good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. | |
| 7. | All people shall have the right to maintain the minimum standards of wholesome and cultured living. | |
| 8. | The sight of the fair young girl, as frank and wholesome as the Sierra breezes, had stirred his volcanic, untamed heart to its very depths. | |
| 9. | The free access which many young people have to romances, novels, and plays has poisoned the mind and corrupted the morals of many a promising youth; and prevented others from improving their minds in useful knowledge. Parents take care to feed their children with wholesome diet; and yet how unconcerned about the provision for the mind, whether they are furnished with salutary food, or with trash, chaff, or poison? | |
| 10. | Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. |