How to pronounce longs
Listen to longs 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.
“longs” in real sentences
57 clips in the index · 4 American · 1 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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And yet man longs to be good.
Oxford Union · hear it here
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We might say that everyone, at the start, longs to receive love.
The School of Life · hear it here
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I can see that she's afraid of the words she longs to speak.
The 92nd Street Y · hear it here
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his children he longs to do just that and more than that more than his desire
Redemption Hill Church · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of longs. 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.