How to pronounce metres
Listen to metres 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.
“metres” in real sentences
459 clips in the index · 83 British · 121 Australian · 1 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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The cavern is 57 metres long, 27 metres in width, and 24 metres high.
The Royal Institution · hear it here
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It's nearly four metres long, well, over four metres long.
UK Parliament · hear it here
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metres, something like that.
Geoscience Australia · hear it here
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So, 30 million square metres is 30 million square metres, irrespective of what the data shows.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of metres. 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.