How to pronounce afoul
Listen to afoul in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“afoul” in real sentences
59 clips in the index · 46 American. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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compensation or hire, which would run afoul of the rules.
FAA · hear it here
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if you run afoul against CAATSA what exactly is at stake.
State Department · hear it here
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Employers often can run into, run afoul of the legal issues.
CDC · hear it here
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10 Republicans made it back to the primaries if they ran afoul of their base.
TED · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of afoul. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.