How to pronounce distant
Listen to distant 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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“distant” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 701 American · 505 British · 35 Australian · 1 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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distant stuff out in the very, very, very distant universe.
The Royal Institution · hear it here
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distant islands allowance.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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Barbara Tuchman's distant, a distant mirror written in the 70s, 1970s.
British Library · hear it here
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By this time tomorrow, these talks will be a distant, distant memory.
TED · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of distant. 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.