How to pronounce quiet
Listen to quiet in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“quiet” in real sentences
854 clips in the index · 357 American · 497 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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faithful, quiet citizens.
State Department · watch from 36:20 · hear it here
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to get quiet and as things get quiet somebody Els down withes
Voice of America · watch from 1:48 · hear it here
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Then everything goes quiet.
USGS · watch from 23:20 · hear it here
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radio quiet places on Earth and was so the most radio quiet environment and
NSF · watch from 13:45 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of quiet. 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.