How to pronounce dashes
Listen to dashes 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.
“dashes” in real sentences
105 clips in the index · 26 American · 7 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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QUESTION: Commas, dashes.
State Department · hear it here
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He dashes toward their shaman.
TED-Ed · hear it here
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had way too many m dashes.
The Atlantic · hear it here
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of black dashes all the way along.
The Royal Institution · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of dashes. 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.