How to pronounce litres
Listen to litres 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.
“litres” in real sentences
70 clips in the index · 30 British · 24 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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A megalitre is a million litres.
DCCEEW · hear it here
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by 1 million litres in one year.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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Ten thousand litres of jet fuel are burned every second.
The Royal Society · hear it here
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There's enough there to neutralise two more litres of hydrochloric acid.
The Royal Institution · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of litres. 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.