How to pronounce basil
Listen to basil 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.
“basil” in real sentences
305 clips in the index · 104 American · 14 British · 14 Australian · 1 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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subject to the Basil framework.
Federal Reserve · hear it here
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You haven't lost the freshness of basil basil, but you've unlocked the chlorophyll.
The Royal Institution · hear it here
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basil basil says when you think about work and in particular the changes brought on by
How To Academy · hear it here
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is African blue basil it's a perennial flowering basil and it has a little bit more
Sarvodaya Institute · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of basil. 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.