How to pronounce bookshelves
Listen to bookshelves 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.
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“bookshelves” in real sentences
77 clips in the index · 5 American · 6 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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>> The bookshelves were full.
British Library · hear it here
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I have it on my bookshelves at
Intelligence Squared · hear it here
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had probably been intended to hold bookshelves
Penguin Books UK · hear it here
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I had seen it on bookshelves for many years.
The Atlantic · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of bookshelves. 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.