How to pronounce basalt
Listen to basalt 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.
“basalt” in real sentences
158 clips in the index · 55 American · 52 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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So most planets start out as basically basalt, and then things happen to that basalt, and
Big Think · hear it here
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Most of our lava is basalt.
USGS · hear it here
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season groundwater discharged from the basalt the mcbride basalt province shown in the left-hand map accounts
Geoscience Australia · hear it here
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This is a basalt, this rocknest sandstone material.
Smithsonian Air & Space · hear it here
Why real speech
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