How to pronounce lids
Listen to lids 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.
“lids” in real sentences
83 clips in the index · 15 American · 13 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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is is that even when you close your lids, light can still get through the lids.
The Diary Of A CEO · hear it here
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I leave the lids off of everything.
TED · hear it here
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lids on it and therefore that’s a laptop.
ABC News In-depth · hear it here
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make all of the different planets on different size lids.
Smithsonian Air & Space · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of lids. 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.