How to pronounce delay
Listen to delay in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“delay” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 705 American · 1000 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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The entire roll-out of devolved benefits has involved nothing but delay, delay, delay.
The Scottish Parliament · watch from 18:36 · hear it here
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Delay time thirty seconds.
National Archives · watch from 11:18 · hear it here
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Delay, Store and Discharge.
FEMA · watch from 1:40 · hear it here
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Broaden actually came up with the term sequencing delay as opposed to necessary delay.
FAA · watch from 37:08 · hear it here
Why real speech
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