How to pronounce rivers
Listen to rivers 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.
“rivers” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 909 American · 920 British · 329 Australian · 23 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Rivers of blood. Rivers of blood.
Akademie der Künste · hear it here
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into the rivers, and that kills the rivers.
Penguin Books UK · hear it here
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of the pollution goes into their local rivers they drink these rivers they use these rivers
Cabar.asia · hear it here
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rivers crossing it. The rivers carried sand and gravel with
DCCEEW · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of rivers. 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.