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.

  1. currency to purchase captives across the Sahara.

    TED-Ed · hear it here

  2. built it with the crusaders crusader captives

    Intelligence Squared · hear it here

  3. Those captives, we have some descriptions of them.

    Big Think · hear it here

  4. 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.

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