How to pronounce sails
Listen to sails 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.
“sails” in real sentences
243 clips in the index · 34 American · 28 British · 3 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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to raise the white sails if Isolde accepted the call, or black sails if she refused.
TED-Ed · hear it here
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because they watched ships sailing in a straight line with sails and the sails got lower
The Royal Institution · hear it here
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Ship sails a few miles away.
Smithsonian Air & Space · hear it here
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Columbus 1492 sails the ocean blue.
British Library · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of sails. 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.