How to pronounce pirate
Listen to pirate 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.
“pirate” in real sentences
421 clips in the index · 28 American · 9 British · 10 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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captures a pirate and asks a pirate.
Big Think · hear it here
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is this station pirate is it a pirate station
JXP Productions · hear it here
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pad like a year ago you would see a pirate pirate pirate fire you know they're
FAA · hear it here
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around the pirate radio scene.
British Library · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of pirate. 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.