How to pronounce hooks
Listen to hooks 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.
“hooks” in real sentences
442 clips in the index · 126 American · 28 British · 4 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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got little hooks and those hooks cause them to become trapped.
The Royal Society · hear it here
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getting snagged by hooks.
CDC · hear it here
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there with huge treble hooks.
Flopping Crappie · hear it here
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to have two different hooks.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of hooks. 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.