How to pronounce namesake

Listen to namesake 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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“namesake” in real sentences

68 clips in the index · 27 American · 9 British · 1 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.

  1. revealed by the observatories namesake.

    NSF · hear it here

  2. founder and namesake of HuffPost.

    CrashCourse · hear it here

  3. Lorna Breen, the namesake of our foundation.

    CDC · hear it here

  4. I swear to God, that's my namesake.

    The 92nd Street Y · hear it here

Why real speech

A dictionary gives you one careful reading of namesake. 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.

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