How to pronounce hurdle
Listen to hurdle 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.
“hurdle” in real sentences
591 clips in the index · 129 American · 243 British · 15 Australian · 4 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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faced with hurdle after hurdle after hurdle.
Dept of Justice · hear it here
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and bureaucratic hurdle too.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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What is the hurdle rate there?
Federal Reserve · hear it here
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bigger hurdle to take next slide
CHORUS · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of hurdle. 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.