How to pronounce hostile in American English
“hostile” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to hostile the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
Hear “hostile” in: all accents · British English (735 clips)
“hostile” in real sentences — American speakers
625 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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are bad actors hostile to the government, hostile to the West, hostile to the United States.
The Obama White House
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HOSTILE ENVIRONMENTS IS SPACE.
NASA
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An utterly hostile continent.
NSF
Words that sound like “hostile”
Words one sound away from hostile — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of hostile. 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.