Clips need JavaScript: the YouTube player has to be driven from the page. The sentences
with breakwater below are plain text.
How to pronounce breakwater
“breakwater” pronunciation in British and American English
Listen to breakwater 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.
“breakwater” in real sentences
51 clips in the index · 2 American · 4 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
-
the design of a big breakwater.
Tom Scott
-
in the world as a breakwater.
TED
-
maritime forests constructed reefs constructed breakwater islands channel shallowing ecologically enhanced bulkheads
Waterfront Alliance
-
by the sameness but this it was almost scary the huge Breakwater was new there were
DOOM WAD World
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of breakwater. 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.