How to pronounce boats
Listen to boats 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.
“boats” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 563 American · 755 British · 32 Australian · 1 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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after small boats, fishing boats.
60 Minutes · hear it here
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Not engine boats, not metal boats.
The Diary Of A CEO · hear it here
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equipment onto boats, to move the boats across the ocean, to disembark the boats, and then
The Atlantic · hear it here
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going to let you have eight boats of oil, eight boats, eight big boats of oil.
ABC News In-depth · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of boats. 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.