How to pronounce dread
Listen to dread 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.
“dread” in real sentences
575 clips in the index · 30 American · 80 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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with apprehension and dread.
How To Academy · hear it here
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dread words ring fencing.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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Existential dread, something like that?
The Royal Institution · hear it here
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We had the wartime dread."
The Atlantic · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of dread. 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.