How to pronounce demise
Listen to demise 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.
“demise” in real sentences
500 clips in the index · 55 American · 126 British · 6 Australian · 1 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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demise of passenger traffic.
60 Minutes · hear it here
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significant nostalgia for its demise.
Oxford Union · hear it here
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know, the demise of the West.
Channel 4 News · hear it here
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in the battle of her demise?
British Library · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of demise. 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.