How to pronounce rests
Listen to rests 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.
“rests” in real sentences
912 clips in the index · 124 American · 519 British · 10 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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the responsibility rests.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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upon ourselves rests upon African nations, it also rests on the West.
Interdisciplinary Studies Institute UMass Amherst · hear it here
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So the market take rests.
Big Think · hear it here
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believe ultimately rests with them.
UK Parliament · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of rests. 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.