How to pronounce kidnap
Listen to kidnap 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.
“kidnap” in real sentences
207 clips in the index · 31 American · 9 British · 1 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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a threat to a potential kidnap.
60 Minutes · hear it here
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kidnap his nephew, the king, in 1549.
British Library · hear it here
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Did you kidnap and kill Meline Macan?
60 Minutes Australia · hear it here
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a conspiracy to kidnap 16 U.S.
State Department · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of kidnap. 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.