How to pronounce contravention
Listen to contravention 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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“contravention” in real sentences
125 clips in the index · 26 American · 84 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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dementia, in contravention of
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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contravention of the law on such.
TED · hear it here
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this declared as a contravention of the First Amendment.
CBC News · hear it here
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is known that they will be deployed in contravention of international humanitarian law.
Oxford Union · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of contravention. 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.