How to pronounce desk
Listen to desk 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.
“desk” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 807 American · 656 British · 32 Australian · 4 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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detective's desk or prosecutor's desk.
Dept of Justice · hear it here
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desk, registration desk here just outside the hall.
NIH · hear it here
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Faraday's desk. So on his desk, somewhere, I do
The Royal Institution · hear it here
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the beautiful Resolute Desk.
60 Minutes · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of desk. 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.