How to pronounce cities
Listen to cities in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“cities” 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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a cities suburbs and rural cities suburbs and rural communitie cities suburbs and rural communities cities
Dept of Justice · watch from 3:22 · hear it here
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prisons on the outskirts of our inner cities and our cities.
UK Parliament · watch from 18:28 · hear it here
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through fast-track cities.
The Scottish Parliament · watch from 19:31 · hear it here
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largest cities since 1950.
FEMA · watch from 1:46 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of cities. 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.