How to pronounce rites
Listen to rites 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.
“rites” in real sentences
52 clips in the index · 1 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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The rites of Dionysus got pretty wild, y’all.
CrashCourse · hear it here
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be doing, the last rites that he would recite.
The Atlantic · hear it here
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Um, her priest had come and had given her last rites.
British Library · hear it here
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- Initially on day one of the first read of "Equal Rites", I felt when I
Penguin Books UK · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of rites. 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.