How to pronounce laughs
Listen to laughs 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.
“laughs” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 777 American · 43 British · 46 Australian · 1 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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(LAUGHS) - LAUGHS: Yeah, yeah.
RNZ · hear it here
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(Robert laughs) (audience laughs) A handful.
The Royal Institution · hear it here
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and everybody laughs in the whole cockpit. Everybody laughs.
60 Minutes Australia · hear it here
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[Longoria laughs lightly.]
The Atlantic · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of laughs. 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.