How to pronounce atone
Listen to atone 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.
“atone” in real sentences
52 clips in the index · 1 American · 1 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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he has to atone for this.
Penguin Books UK · hear it here
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to atone for certain complexity of mind.
The School of Life · hear it here
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Jesus is supposed to have died to atone for original sin.
Intelligence Squared · hear it here
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And for Churchill, this is the bodies he must atone for in Bengal.
Oxford Union · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of atone. 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.