How to pronounce detention
Listen to detention 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.
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“detention” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 488 American · 774 British · 622 Australian · 1 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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into detention facilities.
Australian Human Rights Commission · hear it here
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detention, deportation, death.
The Moth · hear it here
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he started his detention in Russia, his wrongful detention in Russia.
PBS NewsHour · hear it here
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well as detention centers.
Big Think · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of detention. 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.