How to pronounce chief
Listen to chief in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“chief” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 1000 American · 1000 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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have chief executive, a chief examiner and a chief accreditation officer.
The Scottish Parliament · watch from 13:17 · hear it here
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Chief Postal Inspector Gary Barksdale, IRS-CI Chief Jim Lee, and FDA Investigative Services Division Chief
Dept of Justice · watch from 1:12 · hear it here
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chief of staff to the Chief of Staff, Mack McLarty.
NIST · watch from 42:38 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of chief. 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.