How to pronounce grit
Listen to grit 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.
“grit” in real sentences
499 clips in the index · 107 American · 118 British · 6 Australian · 4 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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some 8 000 grit micro mesh and then some figure eights on some 12 000 grit
Inkquiring Minds · hear it here
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behind that and makes the country really grit and for me grit does not mean that
Intelligence Squared · hear it here
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means you get grit in them.
Penguin Books UK · hear it here
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There is lots of grit directed my way, because I am the lightning rod for grit—I
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of grit. 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.