How to pronounce opal
Listen to opal 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.
“opal” in real sentences
67 clips in the index · 13 American · 13 British · 11 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Bellow opal from Hong Kong and sanwa Pearl and Bell opal have over 20 years of
The 92nd Street Y · hear it here
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got kept getting opal put up there so we've now put in an opal Rock which
Geoscience Australia · hear it here
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Opal is going to be there waiting for me, and she's probably hungry.
TED · hear it here
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Opal Hunters, some of whose pre-shoot scripts included >> notes production asking >> we produce up
ABC News In-depth · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of opal. 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.