How to pronounce maintain
Listen to maintain in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
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“maintain” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 1000 American · 1000 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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to maintain faith in democracy and to maintain faith in the legitim democracy and to maintain
Dept of Justice · watch from 25:19 · hear it here
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maintain livestock numbers.
The Scottish Parliament · watch from 66:45 · hear it here
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to maintain productivity.
CDC · watch from 35:21 · hear it here
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maintain breeding colonies.
NIH · watch from 0:49 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of maintain. 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.