How to pronounce lanes
Listen to lanes 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.
“lanes” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 339 American · 226 British · 9 Australian · 6 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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lanes become three or three lanes become two, with no central reservation.
UK Parliament · hear it here
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routes with segregated lanes.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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are just two lanes, and those two lanes are 2 mi wide each.
Channel 4 News · hear it here
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any lanes of traffic that were closed today there were specific lanes depending on
NTSB · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of lanes. 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.