How to pronounce dreary
Listen to dreary 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.
“dreary” in real sentences
92 clips in the index · 7 American · 13 British · 1 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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It was a dreary, rainy day.
State Department · hear it here
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adds a pop of colour through these dreary months
Living The Dream Permaculture · hear it here
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dreary scene and and in short you are forever flawed
Intelligence Squared · hear it here
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How often had she gone by there, hating the dreary obscurity of that stairway?
The Atlantic · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of dreary. 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.