How to pronounce ball
Listen to ball in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“ball” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 619 American · 498 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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are going to use a golf ball and a ping-pong ball.
Smithsonian Air & Space · watch from 2:08 · hear it here
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– the “Ball Fling Contest”.
NASA · watch from 2:27 · hear it here
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the ball dozens of times.
The Scottish Parliament · watch from 6:53 · hear it here
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AND THE BALL-HANDLING DRILL.
NIST · watch from 1:14 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of ball. 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.