How to pronounce rite
Listen to rite 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.
“rite” in real sentences
82 clips in the index · 6 American · 20 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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to satisfy some kind of a—not religious rite, but a secular rite.
The Atlantic · hear it here
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decades became a rite of passage.
60 Minutes · hear it here
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it as a terrifying rite of passage.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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We Americanized our names, a common immigrant rite of passage.
TED · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of rite. 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.