How to pronounce fortresses
Listen to fortresses 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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“fortresses” in real sentences
58 clips in the index · 8 American · 3 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Some look like medieval fortresses.
60 Minutes · hear it here
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They spent more on their soldiers and navies and fortresses than on anything else.
The Diary Of A CEO · hear it here
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He said, "200 of them were sitting in fortresses from Danzig down to Zamoz.
Intelligence Squared · hear it here
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imam, who occupy these inaccessible, un-stormable fortresses in remote corners of the Middle East.
The Royal Institution · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of fortresses. 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.