How to pronounce cleft
Listen to cleft 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.
“cleft” in real sentences
78 clips in the index · 20 American · 17 British · 1 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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And notice this cleft here.
The Royal Institution · hear it here
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thinking you know looking at these flyers which are advertising facial tumors cleft lips cleft palates
The Diary Of A CEO · hear it here
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In parts of Asia, the rate of cleft lips and cleft palates is 1 in 500
NIH · hear it here
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lip right, to get the cleft pallet right?
60 Minutes Australia · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of cleft. 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.