How to pronounce mainstay
Listen to mainstay 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.
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“mainstay” in real sentences
119 clips in the index · 30 American · 30 British · 4 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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the mainstay of treatment.
CDC · hear it here
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cancers, surgery is the mainstay of treatment.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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But equally the mainstay of that is through letters.
UK Parliament · hear it here
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The mainstay of Caribbean cooking is the African connection.
British Library · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of mainstay. 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.