How to pronounce bends
Listen to bends 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.
“bends” in real sentences
371 clips in the index · 109 American · 46 British · 9 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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and bends it – bends it and changes it, which is …
USGS · hear it here
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and dramatically bends light.
The Atlantic · hear it here
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Exhale right elbow bends.
Nithya Priyan School Of Yoga · hear it here
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know, like it it bends and bends back and then you can bend forward.
Channel 4 News · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of bends. 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.