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How to pronounce sentinels in American English
“sentinels” pronunciation by American speakers
Listen to sentinels the way American speakers say it — in real sentences from public video clips that play here, on YouTongue.
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“sentinels” in real sentences — American speakers
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deeper and look at more subtle -- perhaps sort of use microbes as sentinels for change
The Obama White House
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Seabirds serve as ocean sentinels and are indicators of the health of the marine environment.
USGS
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We are increasingly using them as sentinels to flag information for us, as validators of the
FEMA
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Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of sentinels. 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.