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

How to pronounce bully in American English

“bully” pronunciation by American speakers

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

“bully” in real sentences — American speakers

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

  1. orders, or through using the bully pulpit -- or the modern bully pulpit, the phone --

    The Obama White House

  2. They were the bully of the Middle East, and they were the bully of us.

    The White House

  3. can’t bully – large countries can’t bully small countries – that a country can, at the

    State Department

Words that sound like “bully”

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

Other forms of “bully”

Why real speech

A dictionary gives you one careful reading of bully. 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 →