How to pronounce hanks
Listen to hanks 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.
“hanks” in real sentences
157 clips in the index · 16 American · 1 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Yeah, take that Tom Hanks.
Smithsonian Air & Space · hear it here
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A very young looking Tom Hanks there.
The Royal Society · hear it here
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Karant-Nunn and Merry Wiesner-Hanks, eds.
CrashCourse · hear it here
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Thanks for not going to Tom Hanks event.
The 92nd Street Y · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of hanks. 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.