How to pronounce cranes
Listen to cranes 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.
“cranes” in real sentences
217 clips in the index · 101 American · 22 British · 1 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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girder cranes, larger cranes.
NIST · hear it here
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So cranes, forklifts and platform lifts.
Smithsonian Air & Space · hear it here
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And of course, the cranes that are there, the ship-to-shore cranes, are as tall as 300
State Department · hear it here
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The sounds, the cranes, the machinery, the smell.
FEMA · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of cranes. 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.