How to pronounce olive
Listen to olive 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.
“olive” in real sentences
746 clips in the index · 31 American · 60 British · 1 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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fat predominates olive oil.
The Diary Of A CEO · hear it here
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reincarnated as an olive.
Oxford Union · hear it here
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Um olive oil chosen olive oil because it has a very low smoke point.
The Royal Institution · hear it here
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Yeah, but but this olive oil only because I've tried other olive oils.
The 92nd Street Y · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of olive. 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.