How to pronounce prohibitive
Listen to prohibitive 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.
Open all results for “prohibitive”
“prohibitive” in real sentences
307 clips in the index · 50 American · 190 British · 20 Australian · 1 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
-
cost would be prohibitive.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
-
It is not so much what we find prohibitive, but what businesses find prohibitive.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
-
really prohibitive >> it's punitive.
The 92nd Street Y · hear it here
-
People may find that prohibitive.
The Atlantic · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of prohibitive. 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.