Clips need JavaScript: the YouTube player has to be driven from the page. The sentences with marines below are plain text.

How to pronounce marines in British English

“marines” pronunciation by British speakers

Listen to marines the way British speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.

“marines” in real sentences — British speakers

84 clips in the index. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.

  1. transferred to the Royal Marines.

    UK Parliament

  2. Ferguson Marines leadership has been strengthened.

    The Scottish Parliament

  3. We heard Neil Bibby talk about the Royal Marines.

    The Scottish Parliament

Words that sound like “marines”

Words one sound away from marines — the pairs that are easy to mix up. Listen to them back to back.

Other forms of “marines”

Why real speech

A dictionary gives you one careful reading of marines. 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.

Nearby words

All words starting with M →