How to pronounce pawns
Listen to pawns 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.
“pawns” in real sentences
133 clips in the index · 14 American · 16 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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as pawns in negotiations.
PBS NewsHour · hear it here
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So, queens become pawns or pawns can fly or whatever that it is.
Intelligence Squared · hear it here
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They are not political pawns.
State Department · hear it here
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as pawns in a political debate.
UK Parliament · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of pawns. 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.