How to pronounce captives
Listen to captives 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.
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“captives” in real sentences
108 clips in the index · 20 American · 2 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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currency to purchase captives across the Sahara.
TED-Ed · hear it here
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built it with the crusaders crusader captives
Intelligence Squared · hear it here
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Those captives, we have some descriptions of them.
Big Think · hear it here
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war captives, especially children taken taken in raiding expeditions.
British Library · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of captives. 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.