How to pronounce fires
Listen to fires in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“fires” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 637 American · 640 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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naturally ventilated fires.
NIST · watch from 2:50 · hear it here
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- [Commentator] She fires.
Smithsonian Air & Space · watch from 1:38 · hear it here
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all initial attack fires.
FAA · watch from 10:03 · hear it here
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such fires from occurring.
The Scottish Parliament · watch from 4:00 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of fires. 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.