How to pronounce blanks
Listen to blanks 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.
“blanks” in real sentences
171 clips in the index · 40 American · 12 British · 1 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Ruvi: Fill in the blanks.
Dept of Justice · hear it here
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I fill what I call fill in the blanks later, sometimes fill in the controversial blanks
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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I write to fill in the blanks, even if the blanks are in my own life.
PBS NewsHour · hear it here
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Here are some of these blanks.
freeCodeCamp.org · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of blanks. 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.