How to pronounce jails
Listen to jails 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.
“jails” in real sentences
442 clips in the index · 236 American · 68 British · 8 Australian · 1 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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- JAILS, ESPECIALLY SMALL JAILS, ARE PART OF THE COMMUNITY.
Dept of Justice · hear it here
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And jails are commercial.
The Diary Of A CEO · hear it here
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the sometime jails are municipal.
The Atlantic · hear it here
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jails who are acutely unwell.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of jails. 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.