How to pronounce overtake
Listen to overtake 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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“overtake” in real sentences
218 clips in the index · 34 American · 34 British · 4 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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would eventually overtake them.
CrashCourse · hear it here
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was about to overtake them.
The 92nd Street Y · hear it here
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been assigned to overtake it.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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So that shadow starts to overtake the moon.
Smithsonian Air & Space · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of overtake. 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.