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.
“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.
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and how often these quakes occur.
USGS · hear it here
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They do tend to occur in clusters, with aftershocks following quakes in a pretty predictable pattern.
CrashCourse · hear it here
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of uh futur Quakes to happen in that same region um the their importance in particular
GeoscienceAustralia · hear it here
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they call them shocks or quakes or jolts or whatever like that but that the ground
USGS · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of quakes. 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.