How to pronounce quakes

Listen to quakes 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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“quakes” in real sentences

70 clips in the index · 40 American · 8 Australian · 1 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.

  1. and how often these quakes occur.

    USGS · hear it here

  2. They do tend to occur in clusters, with aftershocks following quakes in a pretty predictable pattern.

    CrashCourse · hear it here

  3. of uh futur Quakes to happen in that same region um the their importance in particular

    GeoscienceAustralia · hear it here

  4. they call them shocks or quakes or jolts or whatever like that but that the ground

    USGS · hear it here

Why real speech

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