How to pronounce selves
Listen to selves 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.
“selves” in real sentences
699 clips in the index · 51 American · 43 British · 12 Australian · 1 New Zealand. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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full-bodied human selves.
Intelligence Squared · hear it here
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true selves to ourselves.
TED · hear it here
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really how we create selves and sort of stamp those selves on the world.
Penguin Books UK · hear it here
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fully outgrow our childhood selves.
The School of Life · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of selves. 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.