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.

  1. into detention facilities.

    Australian Human Rights Commission · hear it here

  2. detention, deportation, death.

    The Moth · hear it here

  3. he started his detention in Russia, his wrongful detention in Russia.

    PBS NewsHour · hear it here

  4. 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.

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