How to pronounce prickly

Listen to prickly 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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“prickly” in real sentences

82 clips in the index · 11 American · 6 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.

  1. driving our prickly friends to the brink.

    The Royal Society · hear it here

  2. Take a look at the prickly pear.

    TED-Ed · hear it here

  3. Cos it is a prickly plant, eh?

    RNZ · hear it here

  4. Prickly pear — it’ll turn your pee red!

    CrashCourse · hear it here

Why real speech

A dictionary gives you one careful reading of prickly. 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.

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