How to pronounce figurative
Listen to figurative 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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“figurative” in real sentences
106 clips in the index · 12 American · 12 British · 1 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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abstract and figurative designs.
British Library · hear it here
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That tear is not figurative.
The Royal Institution · hear it here
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amount of figurative art or possibly all the figurative Arts is driven by the terror of
Intelligence Squared · hear it here
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We are wearing our figurative masks.
TED · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of figurative. 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.