How to pronounce jive
Listen to jive 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.
“jive” in real sentences
50 clips in the index · 13 American. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Leamine's soccer sensibilities jive with Barcelona.
60 Minutes · hear it here
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- [Announcer] Dancing the jive from the movie, "Despicable Me".
Penguin Books UK · hear it here
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did not jive with how I was living my life.
The Diary Of A CEO · hear it here
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It just doesn't jive with anything that's real.
Dept of Justice · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of jive. 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.