How to pronounce rugged
Listen to rugged 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.
“rugged” in real sentences
349 clips in the index · 116 American · 4 British · 8 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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Anyway, these cameras were pretty rugged, in fact, very rugged.
Smithsonian Air & Space · hear it here
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in a rugged mountainous region.
60 Minutes · hear it here
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There are no rugged individualists flourishing.
Big Think · hear it here
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This is rugged and unforgiving countryside.
60 Minutes Australia · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of rugged. 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.