How to pronounce gesture in American English
“gesture” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to gesture the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “gesture” in: all accents · British English (110 clips)
“gesture” in real sentences — American speakers
229 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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so, very apropos gesture.
NASA
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That's a vulnerability gesture.
U.S. Air Force
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And the electoral police, I think, is a symbolic gesture, again, as a kind of gesture
State Department
Words that sound like “gesture”
Words one sound away from gesture — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Other forms of “gesture”
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of gesture. 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.