How to pronounce lapel
Listen to lapel 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.
“lapel” in real sentences
52 clips in the index · 21 American · 4 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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They're little lapel pins.
Smithsonian Air & Space · hear it here
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Brendan Carr of the FCC even wears not a American flag lapel pin, but a lapel
The 92nd Street Y · hear it here
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Vera, I think we got the lapel mike.
State Department · hear it here
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told that she could wear only one of her lapel badges.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of lapel. 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.