How to pronounce breaks in American English
“breaks” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to breaks the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
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“breaks” in real sentences — American speakers
1,000+ clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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What if this breaks, what if that breaks?
Smithsonian Air & Space
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either establishing new fuel breaks, or maintaining fuel breaks.
US Forest Service
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breaks for the data: Natural Breaks, Quantile, and Equal Interval.
Census Bureau
Words that sound like “breaks”
Words one sound away from breaks — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “breaks”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of breaks. 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.