How to pronounce bleak
Listen to bleak 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.
“bleak” in real sentences
678 clips in the index · 33 American · 198 British · 1 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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potentially very bleak outlook.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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Not impossible, but but bleak.
The Atlantic · hear it here
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Oh, they're pretty bleak.
RNZ · hear it here
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imaginative scope, than "Bleak House."
Penguin Books UK · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of bleak. 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.