How to pronounce octane
Listen to octane 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.
“octane” in real sentences
109 clips in the index · 36 American · 7 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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And actually, we raced this on 100 octane-- 160-octane racing fuel.
Smithsonian Air & Space · hear it here
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In the first episode of this series, we mentioned octane and iso-octane, two components of gasoline.
CrashCourse · hear it here
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from a high octane fight to cold calculation.
60 Minutes · hear it here
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A pithy, high-octane precis of constitutional hiearchy.
UK Parliament · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of octane. 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.