How to pronounce coughs
Listen to coughs 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.
“coughs” in real sentences
159 clips in the index · 66 American · 18 British · 10 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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>> Visitor: (Coughs) My word...
UK Parliament · hear it here
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when someone coughs or sneezes.
CDC · hear it here
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down, (coughs) then you get a problem.
The Royal Institution · hear it here
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Does >> coughs Coughing all day every day.
The 92nd Street Y · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of coughs. 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.