How to pronounce perilous

Listen to perilous 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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“perilous” in real sentences

410 clips in the index · 77 American · 160 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.

  1. THE PERILOUS FIGHT, OKAY.

    The Atlantic · hear it here

  2. Security law for Perilous Times".

    National Archives · hear it here

  3. generation to live through man made climate change on a perilous, as perilous a scale as

    British Library · hear it here

  4. our own perilous and tortured agendas.

    The School of Life · hear it here

Why real speech

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