How to pronounce pains
Listen to pains 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.
“pains” in real sentences
688 clips in the index · 101 American · 138 British · 1 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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actually had stomach pains.
The Diary Of A CEO · hear it here
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I sometimes get sharp pains.
NIH · hear it here
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I had been developing some chest pains, uh, pains in my breast and nipples such that
60 Minutes Australia · hear it here
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Although it pains me to do so.
PBS NewsHour · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of pains. 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.