How to pronounce lens
Listen to lens in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“lens” in real sentences
980 clips in the index · 396 American · 584 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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I read that it's like a contact lens; it's really a contact lens, contact lens type
NIST · watch from 83:00 · hear it here
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single-lens reflex, right?
Smithsonian Air & Space · watch from 32:06 · hear it here
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competition issues through their own lens that the FCC addressed to their lens which
FTC · watch from 179:27 · hear it here
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using a health equity lens.
CDC · watch from 32:23 · hear it here
Why real speech
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