How to pronounce bygone
Listen to bygone 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.
“bygone” in real sentences
71 clips in the index · 6 American · 17 British · 1 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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It is not a bygone affair.
British Library · hear it here
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Popular Monthly called the bygone Bohemia.
Northeastern NULab · hear it here
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things that happened in bygone years or, indeed, faraway places.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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The commemorations of Lexington and Concord are not mere memorials of a bygone time.
USDA · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of bygone. 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.