How to pronounce pauses
Listen to pauses 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.
“pauses” in real sentences
345 clips in the index · 101 American · 57 British · 1 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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to these humanitarian pauses.
State Department · hear it here
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series of delays and pauses.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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For >> pauses our interview here.
The Atlantic · hear it here
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pauses in breathing during sleep.
TED-Ed · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of pauses. 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.