How to pronounce rots
Listen to rots 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.
“rots” in real sentences
67 clips in the index · 4 American · 13 British · 1 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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- Cream is expensive, it rots.
The Royal Institution · hear it here
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food rots and produces methane, a powerful greenhouse gas.
TED · hear it here
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put a book in a drawer and either it ripens or rots.
The 92nd Street Y · hear it here
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stalks of the maize and it lies on the ground and rots into the soil.
The Royal Society · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of rots. 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.