How to pronounce avenue
Listen to avenue 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.
“avenue” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 471 American · 360 British · 21 Australian · 6 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Madison Avenue, Park Avenue, Broadway.
60 Minutes · hear it here
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Detroit Avenue, and Carnegie Carnegie Avenue Bridges in Ohio.
NTSB · hear it here
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Avenue here in Washington.
US National Archives · hear it here
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Tenth and Pennsylvania Avenue.
Dept of Justice · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of avenue. 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.