How to pronounce futile
Listen to futile 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.
“futile” in real sentences
220 clips in the index · 16 American · 31 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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targeting males is futile.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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point where that is just futile.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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would be a futile effort anyway.
CDC · hear it here
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project they were doing was futile.
The Royal Institution · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of futile. 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.