How to pronounce lights
Listen to lights in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“lights” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 689 American · 411 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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light coming and not just bright lights or fluorescent lights.
NIST · watch from 79:08 · hear it here
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"Lights, Camera, Parliament!"
UK Parliament · watch from 64:26 · hear it here
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Altitude-velocity lights.
NASA · watch from 9:14 · hear it here
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crossing the lights at the grade crossing the flashing lights illuminated
NTSB · watch from 8:55 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of lights. 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.