How to pronounce brakes
Listen to brakes 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.
“brakes” in real sentences
889 clips in the index · 448 American · 77 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Faults on the wing, brakes, brakes, brakes.
60 Minutes Australia · hear it here
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functioning brakes means brakes with performance equivalent to the four recommended OE brakes for the unaltered
NTSB · hear it here
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Brooks: No brakes Lembke: Right, no brakes, the inevitable crash.
The Atlantic · hear it here
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your perusal on the brakes.
Dept of Justice · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of brakes. 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.