Clips need JavaScript: the YouTube player has to be driven from the page. The sentences with breathe below are plain text.

How to pronounce breathe in American English

“breathe” pronunciation by American speakers

Listen to breathe the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.

“breathe” in real sentences — American speakers

1,000+ clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.

  1. Breathe in and breathe out.

    NIH

  2. And you would never breathe less than your body needed to breathe.

    CDC

  3. They live and breathe safety…

    FAA

Words that sound like “breathe”

Words one sound away from breathe — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.

Other forms of “breathe”

Why real speech

A dictionary gives you one careful reading of breathe. 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.

Nearby words

All words starting with B →