How to pronounce hoods
Listen to hoods 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.
“hoods” in real sentences
71 clips in the index · 10 American · 6 British · 3 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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among the hoods my years with a teenage
Intelligence Squared · hear it here
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So you can have all kinds of different hoods.
Smithsonian Air & Space · hear it here
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We call them hoods where I was from, right?
The Moth · hear it here
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Because we don't have to design those big hoods anymore.
CDC · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of hoods. 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.