How to pronounce retreating
Listen to retreating 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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“retreating” in real sentences
294 clips in the index · 71 American · 32 British · 17 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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glacier is rapidly retreating.
NIST · hear it here
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And the shoreline is retreating.
The Royal Institution · hear it here
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opposed to retreating from it.
Oxford Union · hear it here
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She moves along incognito on foot, [Dionne Brand] retreating into unknowing, retreating into always orphanages, [Dionne
Akademie der Künste · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of retreating. 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.