How to pronounce knocks
Listen to knocks 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.
“knocks” in real sentences
345 clips in the index · 43 American · 56 British · 5 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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it knocks atoms, knocks electrons out of the atoms.
The Royal Institution · hear it here
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damage hard knocks, right?
The 92nd Street Y · hear it here
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showed knocks my socks off.
NSF · hear it here
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(unknown entity knocks) - Oh, Mr.
Penguin Books UK · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of knocks. 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.