How to pronounce hives
Listen to hives 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.
“hives” in real sentences
77 clips in the index · 35 American · 9 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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the hives solicit this attention.
How To Academy · hear it here
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We have 16 hives in the height of the summer, each one of those hives has
Smithsonian Air & Space · hear it here
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The queen heads for a citrus grove full of honeybee hives.
TED-Ed · hear it here
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and girls wearing pink that I will suddenly come out in hives.
Oxford Union · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of hives. 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.